2005/07/15

Practice for writing #2

Topic: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers.

I don’t agree that parents are the best teachers. I don’t mean that parents don’t have roles as teachers, but I think there are lots of people that can be teachers.
I think that parents have taught many things that can be useful for life. In my life with them, I could learn a fundamental layer thing that I have to know to live as one family. When I was kid, they said to me “Wash your hands before and after you eat something,” “Say hello to family member and of course to neighborhood, ” “Eat supper with family,” and so on. Of course they gave us another advice when I was getting order, but mainly they teach what is good and bad in our lives. So their major is teaching fundamental society as Family member.
Friends must be good teachers, too. They teach more important things than parents ever taught. The friend and I can influence each other for their own thinking way. For example, few years ago, I hated one friend whom I was a good friend with in some point and I often said about her “I really hate her. But we both used to be a good friend, so I tried to like her, but I couldn’t.” Another friend of mine heard it and said, “ Don’t worry, there are so many kind of people and it is not possible for us to be a good friends with all of them. I know how you and the friends were good friends, but if time goes by, we ourselves change, too. So, take it easy. But, you mustn’t tell that you hate her any more, if you don’t want to let the circumstances more badly.” I really agree this idea. After that, relationship of the friend and me’s whom I used to hate became better. So, from friends, I can learn how to meet the people in society.
In our society, there are many teachers but each of them has their specialized. So parents must be good teachers, but their couldn’t be the best teachers of all things.

1 comment:

Ellen said...

How about this one: Parents should teach children morals and manners, but teachers should teach children important facts and also how to learn. Do you agree? Do you think it's also the role of teachers to teach morals and manners? Do you think it's also the role of parents to teach children how to learn? Do you think both teachers and parents can teach by example? If so, what is it about what your parents and teachers do that you try to model yourself on?