An ongoing debate exists over whether parents are the best teacher for their children or not. Even though the role of parents have a great impact on their kids, I firmly disagree with the opinion that parents are the best teacher. The rational behind this is that they are likely to have little time to spend with their children. Moreover, in some specialized field of study, parents cannot possibly help them on a practical level.
Above all, in this modern society, it is hard to spend time with children. That is, each family member has their own life schedule. To be specific, parents have to go to work to earn money which supports family, and children need to go to school to learn knowledge. This forces each family member meet often other groups of people such as coworkers, teachers, and friends, rather than their family. The best example illustrates this point is my friend, mi-young. When she was very young, her father went to foreign country for work. Accordingly she was not able to see her father during approximately 5years which was most crucial period that allows seeing her growth. In this sense, regardless of intention of parents, in many cases, they are hard to be teachers.
Furthermore, when it comes to special field of study, parents tend to be not qualified enough to teach. Children have different talent of what they want to pursue in the future. Some kids want to be athletes, some kids are dreaming of being designers. However since no one can do everything perfectly and has information about everything, they not fit in children's teaching position unless they are expert in the field. For instance, I was on the path of artist in my early age. However my parents could not be my drawing teacher. Even though it was evident that they were my biggest helper in my life, they could not help me directly since they were not familiar with art.
To sum up, I strongly disagree with the idea that parents are the best teacher since they can not be around children much time, and also they are not the experts of the field that children are interested in. |