Topic: do you agree that parents are the best teachers?
Nowadays, in America, quiet a few parents prefer to teach their children by themselves at home. But in my opinion, either for the knowledge-teaching or character-building, parents aren’t the best teachers. The reasons are as followed.
Firstly, a lot of parents haven’t been trained formally for teaching, compared with teachers, so they can’t teach their children academic knowledge ,neither do they have a systematic plan of teaching . Take my father as an example. My father just graduated from primary school. What can he teach me with so limited knowledge, maths ,English or nothing ? Hence, I don’t think parents have the quality to be teachers, especially .in teaching children knowledge.
In addition someone thinks that parents have greater influence on children’s character_building than their teachers . However, we can not make sure that all the influence is good For instance, children will imitate their parents’ bad habits like smoking ,gambling ,sleeping late etc. And researches show that children born in a family full of family violence will be spineless or violent-liking in their future life. So, in the process of character-building , parents can be angles or devils. It’s hard to say .So we can’t say that parents are the best teachers, maybe it’s just the other way.
And finally, I’m always told that parents are the closest people to the children .Is that true ? Maybe we should change our mind from now on. As is known to all, most parents have to work.. So the time they spend with their children is limited, perhaps less than eight hours (one third of a day )..Let alone the generation gap between parents and children .I once met some kids who seldom share things with their parents. Since it is likely that children are less close to their parents than teachers or friends, I don’ think parents are the best teachers to children.
In one word, according to the limitation of knowledge and time as well as the parents’ bad impacts on their children, I believe there are alternative people to be children’s best teachers other than parents. |