People are greatly influenced by two factors, parents and the surrounding people. Obviously, parents are the first and the most involved teacher to their children. Therefore, the parents are the best teachers. There are some reasons for my opinion.
First, in the infancy, the babies are looking up their parents and learn the basic manners, like not running around at public places, and hitting other kids, that are accepted by the society. If they do not learn such manners from their parents, they would probably find it hard to get along well with other children. Babies copy the character traits of their parents knowingly and unknowingly.
In addition, parents even affect the study habits of their children. The children of doctors, lawyers, professors and other professionals see their parents working for a lot of times, reading a tons of books, and punching the keyboard even at home. Thus, they are showing their children how to study and work by their own will. Even though there are a bunch of skillful teachers, there are only few teachers that can motivate the students to study by their own will. Therefore, parents, who can influence their children to study, are the best teachers because they are teaching them not only what to study, but also why to study.
Moreover, parents are the teachers that know the merits and demerits of their children, because they spend the most time with their children. Therefore, they can help them develop their merits and improve their demerits very well. There are probably no teachers who know more about the students than parents and are more involved than the parents.
In conclusion, because the parents are those who teach their children basic manners to be accepted by the society, affect the study habits of their children, and can help them develop merits and improve demerits, parents are the best teachers.
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