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Dated: 28th September 2010

Topic 2: Parents are the best teachers

According to the Cambridge advanced learner’s dictionary, the word teacher is the one whose
job is to teach in a school or college. But in my opinion, teacher can be anyone who gave us
knowledge, experience and good advices. Therefore, if wonder who is my best teacher; I will
have no hesitation in saying those are my parents who taught me the first lessons and many
things in my life in the best way.

Obviously, I received many first lessons from my parents when I was a child which is very
important in my life. Those are the lessons on how to crawl, how to stand, how to speak, how to
walk, how to ride a bike, especially, how to behave in proper manner. All of these things are
very important in my whole life. Therefore, I believe that no one in the world can be the best
teacher but our parents.

Furthermore, my parents are also the best teacher to teach me many things in my life in the
most efficient way. At school or colleges, I was given a lot of knowledge in many subjects, such
as mathematics, literature, geology or even ethics lessons which taught me what I should do
and what I mustn’t do. But all of these were only what I studied in theories. As a research
pointed out, people remember 90% of what they do, 75% of what they see and 20% of what
they hear. Therefore, I refer to the actions of my parents in reality than the lectures. Also, a
moral lesson at school can’t teach me about kindness better than my own parents who always
helped others when they were in trouble. Day by day and in an automatic way, the parents
become the teachers who we can learn about many things in life with the best reality, their
actions become the model for all of us to follow.

Another important factor is related to moral sense, some values and rules of society that
differentiates culture to culture. However, it is shaped in our homes by our parents so we accept
them and agree the reality of them. For instance, American people and Vietnamese people are
different with each other because they grow in different societies and different families.
Generally, most people accept the rules of own family so parents are the best teachers, too.

In conclusion, I believe that parents are the best teacher because we learned a lot of knowledge
which are not taken from the books. So, we cannot deny that parents are the most influential
people in our lives. All in all, most people learn most of things from their parents and this fact
makes them the best teachers except for some situations.

Written by ThảoPTT

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