▶ Your Answer :
As we go on with our lives, we meet a lot of teacher or mentors on the way. They teach us academically and morally and they try to make a better human being. Although I believe that parents can be good teacher, I am not sure if they are the best teacher. This is because parents can be overprotective and also underqualified.
To start with, parents can be overprotective of their children. Sometimes teachers have to be strict and tell their students off for doing something wrong. It is easy for a stranger to be strict on a child and teach them right morals. Nevertheless, parents are different. They can go easy on their children because they get moved by their tears. For instance, my parent taught me how to ride a bicycle. When I fall down, my parents were worried about me getting hurt and they stopped teaching me. So I have no choice but to learn it from my brother and I learned it more quickly. All in all, parents can be less strict when it comes to teaching their own child.
On top of that, parents can be underqualified about the things they teach their children. Being a teacher can mean a lot of things. They have to fulfill their children academically because it is also important for students to develop in that way. In some cases, however, parents are underqualified to teach their children how to solve a math equation or teach them grammer. To illustrate this point, in some poor district, where illiteracy is high, the parents of the children don't even know how to spell rather then teach them valuable lessons. As a matter a fact, parents discourage their children to learn because they think learning doesn't help to make life easier.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that their are better teachers in ones' life than their parents. Children can find better teacher elsewhere because parents can have problem with being strict or teach them at all. It is better to kind a qualified teacher who understands the children better. |