Topic 2 Are parents best teachers?

Our entire (Вся наша) education system is based on what we accumulate each day of our life. In spite of the fact that school teachers are those who give us lots of information in a variety of fields, our parents are still the best teachers; they start their educational process as soon as we were born and never stop teaching us.

In the initial years of our life (В первые годы нашей жизни), our parents are involved in guiding us, in modulating (в коректировку) our personality and making us understand the differences between right and wrong. When I was five, my parents bought me a dog; they taught me how to take care of him, feed him, play with him and bath him. Thus, I learned that we all have responsibilities.

Even if parents are not specialized in education, their role in teaching the children to be aware of the need of improving their knowledge at school is tremendous. Our parents are not supposed to teach us Math, Chemistry or Biology, but they are very much involved in giving us lessons about being independent, strong and confident in ourselves. As my mother said to me, "fight your own battles because I will not be always able to protect you."

Teenagers have to be informed about all the negative effects that can occur (которые могут возникнуть) if using drugs, drinking alcohol, or smoking. Regarding this issue (Что касается этого вопроса), parents have to cooperate with school teachers to make children aware of those possible risks.

I believe that parents are the best teachers because their lessons last forever. My parents are old now. Even when I am a grown up person, I consider that they can still give me very good advices when I need them, based on their life experience. My parents have the most important roll in my education during my life and I will always be grateful (благодарен, признателен) for everything they have taught me.

Topic 2 Are parents best teachers?

Throughout all the years in my life (На протяжении всех лет в моей жизни), I was influenced by my parents in many fashions, from the way of thinking to the trifle (мелочь) everyday habits. No doubt, we inherit the gene from our parents (мы наследуем от генов наших родителей) and get basic knowledge and norms from them. What we learned from our parents in the early years will be encoded in our mind (будет закодирован в нашем сознании) and be reflected in nearly every aspect of our behaviors (отражение в практически каждый аспект нашего поведения). But in terms teaching, I do not think it's our parents who are the best teachers.

As is known to all (Как известно всем), a child will be better trained with a systematic education. However, except those parents who are schoolteachers themselves, few parents grasp (ухватить, воспринимать, постигать) the systematic way of teaching. On the one hand, children can only learn a large scope of knowledge (Большой объем знаний) step by step from formal education at schools. On the other hand, the parents can only teach their children sporadic (единичное, отдельное) knowledge. It is obvious that (Очевидно, что) the young will be better equipped through formal education in classroom.

From the emotional angle, the bond (связь) between child and parents are so tight (крепка, глубока) that the parents cannot give a more objective instruction than a schoolteacher can. Some parents tend to spare (жалеть) their children from hard working and, to the extreme, some even spoil (избалованный) their children to do everything they want. All these are resulted from parents' love toward children. But from an objective angle, hardworking is sometimes a necessary step toward success. Parents should not be blamed for loving their children but such love may become obstacle for objective instruction.

With the coming of the knowledge economic, we may find that our parents' knowledge is becoming obsolete (устаревает). In a changing world, the young are always the first to fashion the news ideas and technology. The elderly, however, are always not used to such rapid changes. Thus, conflicts are inevitable between parents and their children. Accordingly (Таким образом), the young are no longer willing to commit (соглашаться) to their parents ideas. To catch the tide of such changes (Чтобы поймать волну таких изменений), it is of the best interest for the young to learn from the open world instead of from the obsolete knowledge of their parents.

All this is not to say that to learn from parents is useless - Все это не означает, что учиться у родителей не имеет смысла

All this is not to say that to learn from parents is useless. In fact, even in the rapidly changing world, the scope of parents' knowledge still has great influence on their children, especially on young children. But for the young to get the most needed knowledge, they should not solely rely on what they learned from their parents (они не должны полагаться исключительно на то, что они узнали от своих родителей).