【急】issue 154求拍！先谢过诸位大牛！

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The author asserts that education is so important that it is unwise to rely solely on professional educators and that involvement of parents and communities is essential. In my view, however, this claim, though having it merits to some extent, is based on a twisted view of education, and, rather than improve the overall quality of education, will only lead to more mental and economic burden on parents, teachers and children as a whole.

No one can be compared, many of us believe, with parents in shaping the personalities of their children. Parents are their children's first teachers. Before the advent of adolescence, most children have an incredibly high ideal of their parents and an unshakable faith in their characters and infallibility. Even when these children has grown up and appear as an independent individual, one can still trace the unique way they behave to their parents. Moreover, parents are also the people who care most about the children’s education. So deep is the parents’ love for their children that they are sometimes willing to sacrifice anything they possess to guarantee their children the best education, as is illustrated by the case of Lang Lang who is now perhaps the best pianist in China. His father resigned his job to cultivate his son into a piano virtuoso.

However, parents cannot replace the role that professional educators play at school for generally two reasons. First, over-caring parents may hamper their children from fully developing their own independent characters. Nowadays, some parents pay extremely close attention to their children’s experience and problems at school and go so far as to be called ‘helicopter parents’, for like helicopters, they hover closely over the head of their children, rarely out of reach, whether their children need them or not. In their attempt to sweep all obstacles out of the path of their children, the parents unfairly exert such tremendous pressure on the teachers that whenever their children get awful test scores, or suffer from physical illness, it is the already over-worked educators to blame. Many teachers in China complain that it is now impossible to criticize the students for the sake of their parents who are inclined to spoil them and the students has
become so dependent on their parents to solve every problems that their mental maturity is disproportionately low as for their age .

Second, unless the parents themselves are professional educators, parents often lack the requisite skills and knowledge to teach their children. However nice one’s transcript might look during the time as a student, one tends to forget most of the things they learned in classroom at the age of becoming the parent of a child. In contrast, most competent teachers receive strict training particularly designed for different stages of educations at universities with courses ranging from mathematics to psychology. What’s more, people who are committed to pursue a career in the educational realm are usually loving and morally qualified, of which parents should have confidence. The only thing that parents are able to do better than trained educators is to share with children their rich life experience at home, not at school.

In sum, parents should not interfere too much in the educational affairs at local schools. It’s wise for them to give up the over-parenting mentality and to trust the teachers for their job. In fact, what the parents can teach their children at home is complementary to what the teachers can teach them at school.

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