essay - TOEFL2

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

Answer:
My opinion on this subject is that parents can be the best teachers for their children. The reason why I used "can" in the previous sentence is that there is a possibility that parents can also be bad teachers. Parents are inclined to be too gentle to their children mainly because of their overly strong love. However, if parents have a discipline of education, they can surely be great teachers.

One of the reasons why parents can be the best is that they know their children the best by their natures. Suppose their child is a 10-year-old boy, the mother and father are most likely to know his disposition as well as his history of learning until then. From this point of view, the parents can teach him very well by adapting most suitable teaching methods for him.

Another reason why parents can be the best is that, since we can say generally that the best teacher is supposed to have deep love to the students, parents can be the best candidates for the best teacher. There's no parent who doesn't love his child, although any general matter has its exception. The love must make parents the best teachers.

As I mentioned earlier, however, parents have a disadvantage in being a good teacher. It is that parents possibly cannot be stern to their children even if sternness is required to provide better education. We can hear such a story that a child became so rude or brutal due to a lack of sternness of his parents.

In summary, we can say that parents have a great possibility to be the best teachers for their children, mainly because of their awareness and love. If they have self-discipline, parents are surely the best teachers.