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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best
teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
正文：
Who are the best teachers in our life? In my opinion, the first teachers we
have in our lives in most cases are our parents. They teach us to walk, to
speak, and to have good manners before we reach "the real world. " More than
even the professional teachers that we have in school, parents are generally the
most involved in the development and education of children.
The main reason for my view is that our parents are the best teachers at
the beginning of our lives, which actually corresponds to the parents' role in
nature. Parents are most committed and involved in teaching their children; they
have a kind of instinct to sacrifice a part of themselves for the betterment of
their children. They love us and have great patience while passing down their
knowledge to us. They wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad things.
And of course, implicit learning occurs when children unconsciously copy some of
their parents' habits and styles of behavior.
Also, during the second stage of child development, adolescence, parents
can still be in the best position to offer advice even though the children might
not accept it. In this case, perhaps the child's friends would be the best
teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many cultures and may
automatically reject any advice from their parents. My first marriage for
instance, was solely a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to
intrude in offering their advice. So in such matters, parents should be much
more flexible and be rather the partners with their children. So we can see that
being a teacher of growing child become more and more complicated case as the
time passes and many parents are simply not able to meet the increased
demands.
On the other hand, I would say that parents are not professional teachers
and they tend to be very biased by their love of their children. So wishing good
things and an easy life may prevent children from maturation. In any case,
parents usually can present only one viewpoint of the world, while good teaching
should be based on different attitudes. Thus, when children go to school and
have a great diversity of teachers, they learn much more than their parents
could probably give them. Furthermore, once our parents get older, they become
more conservative and cannot always be objective in regard to modern trends and
fashions. Thus we need to take their advice with caution during that period.
However, some kind of intuition which I believe shared between relatives about
what everybody needs and great love which exists in a families still makes our
parents very good teachers and advisers at any time.
In short, while parents are not the ideal teachers, and well-rounded
children will generally need a great diversity of teachers in their lives in
order to have a more accurate view of the world, parents are generally the most
committed of all teachers and have the greatest emotional investment in their
children and their future.
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:24:56