‘Whether parents are our best teachers or not’ is a never-ending debate and people are divided both in favour and against this argument. Both have a very strong contribution and influence on a child’s learning but in my opinion, parents overtake the teachers in terms of teaching their children.
First of all, I would like to point out that a teacher is not merely a person who takes a text book and read texts from there to a student. Rather a teacher is someone who devotes his/her times to teach someone everything that someone needs to know to advance to next step. Morality, intricacies of life, subject matter knowledge, art, science, history, value of time etc. are something that can’t be taught through academic books and a good teacher is someone who teaches someone these all.
Now that we know the true responsibility of a teacher, we can easily compare our parents and teachers. The things that we learn from our parents are far more important than what we learn from our teachers. I am not denying the invaluable knowledge we learn from our teachers through our academic years, but what we learn from our parents are incomparable. We learn to survive, talk, and distinguish well from bad, values of life, morality and such important other things from our parents. We are the true reflection of our parents and our characters are shaped by their personality and behaviours. Later the teachers help us to enhance our knowledge, horizon and our view of life but the very foundation and ground are made by our parents.
The parents sacrifice so many things of their life just to ensure a better life for us and nothing in this whole world could even be compared with their sacrifice for us. Think of a student who is unable to pay his/her monthly school fees would be cast away from the school and the beloved teachers would scarcely be there to help him/her. On the other hand, the parents would always be there with their every possible effort to help the child.
In summary, the things we learn from our teachers are important for our lives and with those valuable lessons and knowledge we prepare for the future but the things we learn from our parents shapes who we are, who we become and their contribution is much more important compared to the contribution of the traditional academic teachers and that’s why in my opinion parents are best teachers.
‘Whether
parents
are our best
teachers
or not’ is a never-ending debate and
people
are divided
both in
favour
and against this argument. Both have a
very
strong contribution and influence on a child’s learning
but
in my opinion,
parents
overtake the
teachers
in terms of teaching their children.
First of all
, I would like to point out that a
teacher
is not
merely
a person
who
takes a text book and read texts from there to a student.
Rather
a
teacher
is
someone
who
devotes his/her times to teach
someone
everything that
someone
needs to know to advance to
next
step. Morality, intricacies of
life
,
subject matter
knowledge
, art, science, history, value of time etc. are something that can’t
be taught
through academic books and a
good
teacher
is
someone
who
teaches
someone
these all.
Now
that we know the true responsibility of a
teacher
, we can
easily
compare our
parents
and
teachers
. The things that we
learn
from our
parents
are far more
important
than what we
learn
from our
teachers
. I
am not denying
the invaluable
knowledge
we
learn
from our
teachers
through our academic years,
but
what we
learn
from our
parents
are incomparable. We
learn
to survive, talk, and distinguish well from
bad
, values of
life
, morality and such
important
other things from our
parents
. We are the true reflection of our
parents
and our characters
are shaped
by their personality and
behaviours
. Later the
teachers
help
us to enhance our
knowledge
, horizon and our view of
life
but
the
very
foundation and ground
are made
by our parents.
The
parents
sacrifice
so
many
things of their
life
just
to ensure a better
life
for us and nothing in this whole world could even
be compared
with their sacrifice for us.
Think
of a student
who
is unable to pay his/her monthly school fees would
be cast
away from the school and the beloved
teachers
would
scarcely
be there to
help
him/her.
On the other hand
, the
parents
would always be there with their every possible effort to
help
the child.
In summary, the things we
learn
from our
teachers
are
important
for our
lives
and with those valuable lessons and
knowledge
we prepare for the future
but
the things we
learn
from our
parents
shapes
who
we are,
who
we become and their contribution is much more
important
compared to the contribution of the traditional academic
teachers
and that’s why in my opinion
parents
are best
teachers
.