Throughout the history, a lot of education theories were developed such as Montessori education menthod and Piaget theory. As the technology and educational method develop, today, many parents try to teach their children by themselves. Moreover, some people say that teaching their children with the help of their parents is the best way in that parents can their children with affection and the teaching style is more careful. As far as I know, however, it is not the parents that provide real education. In this essay, I will briefly present two reasons to support my assertion.
First of all, the more knowledge their children have, the less knowledge parents have. To be specific, even if parents can teach basic and superficial subjects such as basic mathmatics and ethics, in case their children grow up requiring more specific knowledge and subjects, parents cannot teach such specific knowledge. According to the Administration of Education of Korea, it is proven that among home teaching parents, over 80 percent of them cannot teach their children the subjects which require professional knowledge such as biology and algebra, so children have no choice but to enter the school.
Secondly, it is difficult for children to get an opportunity to have socilization. In other words, living with their parents might throw children into the isolated place, as time passes by. This is because while the children who get an opportunity to play a game with peers can learn cooperation and socilization naturally, the children who live with their parents cannot get such chance. As from my experience, when I was a middle school student, there was a student tought by their parents, and he was very stubborn and always argued his opinion continuously before their teacher. As a result, he were bound to be moved into the department of psychology and learn the ettiqquets, politeness and the way of forming the relationship with peers. In this case, if the parents tought the children properly, he could not have been moved into the department of psychology.
In summary, taking all these factors, an experience, and a research into account mentioned above, we can easily reach the conclusion that the more homeschooling children have, the more side-effects occur to children.
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