In the 21st century, people are definitely enjoying the comfort of machins and technology. And as a result, location and time are not problems any more as far as getting good education is concerned. Students are not passive learners any more. They can choose their own teacher online and they can deepen their knowlege with access to Internet. However, there are some people who still believe that parents are the best instructors. I strongly do not agree with this idea because parents cannot be objective to thier children and they are not the experts in delivering knowledge.
First of all, children need someone who can be always fair and objective to them. This person, whoever that is, can lead them to the right direction by disciplining and sometimes scolding them. However, parents can be blinded by their love and therefore, cannot see what is the best for their children. For instance, my mother is a teacher in a elementary school, and she sees many parents who never see their child's problem. Even if she calls parents of troubled kids about wrong behaviors such as bullying other students, being very rude or never doing their homework, those parents just get angry that my mother is just being prejudice against their children.They believe their children always behave well and are decent. They just don't accept their children have problems and so are not capable of correcting them.
Moreover, teaching is defferent from just having knowlege, and so it requires certain technics. The most important factor when teaching is understanding students' level of knowledge and trying to meet the eyes of them. Unfortunately, it is not easy for most of people to understand how much learners' can get in class . And also, a good teacher should be able to explain what is difficult into simple words. These skiills and inght can be obtained from experiences which none-experts such as parents cannot easily have. Unlike parents, school teachers face their students in calss everyday and so they understand children's point of view. This enables them to be better teachers than parents.
To sum up, parents are certainly not the best in being good lecturers as they lack the fair point of view and don't have necessary teaching skills. According to an article that I read recently, the number of home schoolers is increasing fast in Europe. Even though I understand eagerness of parents to educate their children right, I don't think home schooling is the best choice for the reasons that I have listed above. As being a teacher is not a simple task, parents who want to be an instructor to their own children need to consider these factors and try to gain necessary means. |