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Some people think that parents are the best teachers. In my opinion, although parents are highly influential model for their children, they are not the best. This is because it is more important for children to experience directly on their own to learn something, instead of just listening to their parents, and parents are too busy to care their children these days.
First of all, just referring to the advice of parents or imitating them is not as beneficial as firsthand experience. In other words, children can be taught a lot by experiencing things firsthand with using all of their senses. For example, since I was young, my father has always tried to teach me about the importance of acceptance of foreign cultures. I could not emphasize with his statement before I went on my journey alone. It was not until 2009, when I went to China alone, that I realized that his lesson was very imperative for living today’s world. I finally got to know how to accept and appreciate others with different backgrounds and interests by encountering many foreign friends. If I had not gone to China by myself, I could not be able to be enlightened with the remark of my dad.
On top of that, nowadays, most of parents are busy for earning money to provide for family, and the trend that puts pressures to perform well in the companies makes parents not be able to spend much time with their children. For instance, my parents have been working together for a living from the first time of marriage until now, so I was grown by my grandmother. Although my parents love me and my younger brother, they needed to be loyal to their work in order to keep our livelihoods. Also, when I was 7 years old, IMF occurred unfortunately, so there was nearly no free time for them to teach us something. Despite the pitiful situation, my grandmother put all her effort and time into bringing us up. Until now, I believe that it is not exaggeration at all to say that my grandmother is the best teacher in my life.
To sum up, experiential learning is far more helpful than just listening to or following parents, and modern parents do not have much time to provide their children with valuable life lessons. In this regard, I am against the idea that the best teacher is parents.
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