Are parents the best teacher?

A teacher is someone who input knowledge into students’ minds，arouse students’ inventive thinking and stimulate students to succeed. And parents are the first teachers of us, they stay with us the longest, and they are considered the best teachers of us. As far as I am concerned parents are excellent teachers that they spare no effort to teach us knowledge and they know how to teach us in the most efficient way, but they are not the best one owing to parents’ bad behaviors, and the lack of certain knowledge.

First of all, as individuals, parents more or less have some bad behaviors, it become even worse that all children tend to unconsciously or subconsciously imitate everything including bad ones from their parents. For instance, last week I was doing some shopping with my mother in a store nearby. On our way back home we saw a beggar sitting in the corner asking for money. My mother pretended to ignore him and just walked away. A few days later, while I was playing with friends and saw another beggar, I ignored him, although I know I am not right. That examples shows how enormously do parents influence us.

Admittedly, no parents are able to be professional in all fields. When their children are in elementary schools, it is not surprising to see that some parents are capable of teaching their children in every subject even better than professional teachers. Notwithstanding as their children grow older, they will be unable to teach their children all, though they may be expert in several fields. Wise parents often release rather than charge their children as early as possible. They are aware of the possibility outside the family. However, considering the above flaws, we must say that parents are good teachers but not the best.

Concession granted, parents may help their children much more than do good teachers. Parents almost distinctively devote themselves to cultivating their offspring. Psychology studies have shown that parents’ love sometimes has astonishingly magic power to their children. Moreover, parents know us much better than anyone else and always give pertinent advices. However, the good impact the parents give the children cannot be equal to those of a professional teachers offer us.

In brief, it is rather superficial to simply say that parents are the best teachers. We should learn good qualities from our parents, and when parents make mistakes, it is a good idea to remember not to make the same mistakes.