issue154 [Jet小组]第二十五次作业

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TOPIC: ISSUE154 - "Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators."

WORDS: 649          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2008-3-11 22:32:41

A survey developed by USNews.com recently indicates that as many as 72.34% of parents in US choose to rely on schools to educate children, while 14.18% parents prefer to teach children primarily by themselves. In this period with swift paces, parents seems so busy to stay with children for long time. As a result, most of them have to send young children, some of who are even younger than 6 years, to schools to push most responsibilities of looking after them to professional educators. In my opinion, education for children should involve both parents and communities, rather than totally depend on schools.

Admittedly, professional teaching, or education in school, is essential to children. Firstly, systemic teaching methods can help children learn ruly and roundly. To illustrate, before my cousin went to the elementary school, his parents teach him Chinese characters at home. It takes more than a year to learn fewer than 500 characters; however, after he went to school, just in the first semester he recognized and memorized more than 2,000 characters. It was the teaching system in the school that contributed to his fast learning. Secondly, schools can apply children the environment to communicate interactively with fellows with similar ages. Discussions, cooperations and competitions can both help children in different ways.

However, parents and communities' attention over children help boys and girls full development of a growing personality. For children, what they touch every are nothing more than families, communities and schools. If solely schools try efforts to develop them, they can at most learn things related with academics. It follows that they will even have no common sense about lives and the society. No matter how important the intelligent development is, a child well-prepared for entering the society is always required to do well in both intelligent and emotive areas, which can cultivated just through accepting education of not only academic field but also everyday life. In fact, parents can easily make use of their own experiences or lessons to describe how one should do in young ages, how one overcome difficulties, how one keep calm in front of achievements, and so on; in communities, children can learn communication skills, ways to be welcomed by others, different methods to treat with various kinds of people, etc.. Therefore, with the contribution of eduction from parents and communities, children will attain comprehensive development of personalities.      

What's more, the three kinds of education from three different resources are, in practice, complementary, and each of the them is indispensable. Facts exit that teachers also live in communities and teachers are possible to be parents. To illustrate, in courses such as Communication, teachers could never avoid explain the theories with live examples from either their own lives or others', most of which exit just in communities and families. After receiving so many theories and instances, children can't help wishing to taking those skills into actions. If they have no opportunities to get in touch with communities and parents, what they learn in schools will just be nonobjective, vague and general. Similar cases appear when we consider that children sometimes need to do social survey, collect social statistics data and so on to finish their school work. Except for social courses, scientific courses require practices in lives as well. For instance, physics and chemistry teachers often ask students to do small experiments with commodities at home. In school labs, teacher guides them; however, in families, without teachers, how can they solve problems which may indeed be much too complicated? Sometimes children even get hurt for lack of guides at home, such as using scissors, chemicals and so forth. At those moments, parents should take the responsibilities to teach children to practice in appropriate ways.   

In sum, judging from the reasons mentioned above, we can safely concluded that education for children should involve both parents and communities, rather than solely depend on schools.