Topic 2. Parents are the best teachers.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use
specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Sample essay 1.


Who teaches you to walk? Who teaches you to speak? It is your parents who teach you to do
these basic things in your life. So don't you think that parents are the best teachers!

Firstly, parents know us very much. Parents give us life, and I think that we will spend large
amount of time with them. So they know our merit and demerit in details. Meanwhile, they will
help us to get rid of our demerit.

Furthermore, parents possessed many experiences. Since they are older than us, they have
experienced many things. Sometimes, they are just like our models. And as the saying goes:
"Example is better than precept." So we will unconsciously copy some of our parents' habits and
styles of behavior, i.e. we can learn many things from them.

Finally, parents will teach us everything. Since schoolteachers can just teach us knowledge from
the books, our parents can teach us everything. For example, I learn knitting, cooking and makeup
from my mother, while learn fixing leaky faucet from my father. They are the persons who
love me most, so they will teach me everything without reservations.

Just as the saying goes: "There is no place like home." And I think there is no teacher like our
parents. They are the best teachers in our life.
(This is a 5 point essay)

Sample essay 2.

Some people believe parents maybe a very important teacher for children, but will be taken place
by teacher after children go to school, however, I believe parents always are the best teacher no
matter how many knowledge children have acquired from school, the reasons why I think so go as
follow.

First ,children always imitate their parents from birth, so the parents' influence on children is
great. For example, researchers said that parents' expression can influence the growth of their
children' character, if parents always smell and watch their child while he is playing, the child'
confidence will be greater than other child whose parent always leave him alone at home.

Second, parents are also the best teacher for children in emotional area. For example, If a child
feel oppression or feel frustrated in school, he always not talk to his teacher, at this time, parents
can help him and child are also willing to tell his inner feeling to his parents.

Third, although child get many knowledge from teacher, basic skills in his whole life are come
from his parents. For example, our basic language skill, basic realize skill and even basic sport skill
are all acquired from parents. Because of this basic skill parents teach their child, the influence of
parents will follow the child's whole life.

All in a word, the effect parents take on the child's education process is greater than any teachers
in school, they are the best teacher.
(This is a 5 point essay)

Sample essay 3.

Parents influence greatly their children for a lifetime. I think people are molded by two factors,
family and the society that they are in. From birth, humans are influenced by the surrounding
people for their characteristics. Parents take a big role in bringing up children, which affects their
lives for a long time.

In early infanthood, babies are looking to moms and dads to learn basic manners to be accepted in
society. Some of these manners include not running around in restaurants or hitting other kids. As
they grow up, they learn more from parents about social etiquette, which makes them more
suitable to live in society. Children tend to look to their parents for role models knowingly or
unknowingly.

Besides, parents can also affect children's study habits. Children of doctors , lawyers, investment
bankers, and other professionals see their mothers and fathers work a lot of time, reading books,
and punching keyboards, even at home. They are showing their children how to study by their
own behavior.

However, parents can also be a bad example for their kids. It is difficult for children who have
abusive parents to lead a normal childhood and is possible that they may become similar to their
abusive parents when they grow up. In this sense, the parents' negative role in shaping the
children's personality cannot be emphasized more.

In conclusion, parents are the best teachers for their children. They leave big marks on their
children's lives and are therefore more influential teachers than any others they may have in their
lives.

Sample essay 4.

Who are the best teachers in our life? In my opinion, the first teachers we have in our lives in
most cases are our parents. They teach us to walk, to speak, and to have good manners before we
reach "the real world. " More than even the professional teachers that we have in school, parents
are generally the most involved in the development and education of children.

The main reason for my view is that our parents are the best teachers at the beginning of our lives,
which actually corresponds to the parents' role in nature. Parents are most committed and
involved in teaching their children; they have a kind of instinct to sacrifice a part of themselves
for the betterment of their children. They love us and have great patience while passing down
their knowledge to us. They wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad things. And of
course, implicit learning occurs when children unconsciously copy some of their parents' habits
and styles of behavior.

Also, during the second stage of child development, adolescence, parents can still be in the best
position to offer advice even though the children might not accept it. In this case, perhaps the
child's friends would be the best teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many cultures
and may automatically reject any advice from their parents. My first marriage for instance, was
solely a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to intrude in offering their advice. So
in such matters, parents should be much more flexible and be rather the partners with their
children. So we can see that being a teacher of growing child become more and more complicated
case as the time passes and many parents are simply not able to meet the increased demands.

On the other hand, I would say that parents are not professional teachers and they tend to be very
biased by their love of their children. So wishing good things and an easy life may prevent
children from maturation. In any case, parents usually can present only one viewpoint of the
world, while good teaching should be based on different attitudes. Thus, when children go to
school and have a great diversity of teachers, they learn much more than their parents could
probably give them. Furthermore, once our parents get older, they become more conservative and
cannot always be objective in regard to modern trends and fashions. Thus we need to take their
advice with caution during that period. However, some kind of intuition which I believe shared
between relatives about what everybody needs and great love which exists in a families still
makes our parents very good teachers and advisers at any time.

In short, while parents are not the ideal teachers, and well-rounded children will generally need a
great diversity of teachers in their lives in order to have a more accurate view of the world,
parents are generally the most committed of all teachers and have the greatest emotional
investment in their children and their future.