When it comes to children education, it is controversial that who can be the best teacher to student. The most possible answers can be teachers or parents. Some people insists that teachers in school is better than parents since they have educated and qualified through academic degrees. However, in my opinion, I strongly believe that parents are the best teachers to their children. My view can be greatly substantiated by the reasons addressed below.
Firstly, parents are the closest one to children throughout their whole lifetime. From the very beginning when they born, normally parents and their children spend most of time together. Generally, teachers in school or institution can teach individual for a year or at most 4 years before they graduate. Moreover, According to recent research about human behavior conducted in Seoul shows that human’s ability to learn is maximized during childhood. It is parents that stick to children during that time.
Moreover, parents can teach not only specific subjects or matters, but everything that one should learn. This is including basic skills and social manners that are required in a society. As a personal example, my parents always have taught me how to be polite in the public places. This is the thing that I couldn’t learn in school system since it is common that one teacher teaches one academic subject.
Finally, naturally, children tend to follow what their parents do. This means that if parents behave like the way they want to teach, without any effort, children can acquire it easily. A great deal of empirical evidence suggests that children have similar habits or behaviors of their parents when they grow up.
To make a long story short, parents are the best teachers to their children because of the enormous time they spend together, the various matters they can teach and the tendency of children’s behavior. Regarding this, it is important that parents should care how they act or what they say to children in every situation. |