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1、2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.Obviously, the earliest teachers we have in our lives in most cases are our parents, and they are generally the most involved in the development and educa
2、tion of their children. Yet neither are all parents good teachers nor are those good parents the best teachers.First of all, not all parents are good teachers. As normal individuals, some parents more or less have bad habits. Even though parents almost instinctively devote themselves to cultivating
3、their offspring, the outcome might turn out to be disappointment, for all children tend to unconsciously or subconsciously copy every thing from their parents. Another deficiency of parents as teachers is the fact that most parents are lack of common senses of education. All too often we observe som
4、e parents tend to pursue their cherished but failed dream by forcing their children to develop in a prearranged direction. Ironically, if their children did not follow the instructions, the children would be regarded as disobedient or allegedly rebellious. In fact, it is parents rather than their ch
5、ildren that virtually disobey common senses.Moreover, some parents are qualified as good teachers, but not all of them are the best ones. When children are in the preliminary school, it is not surprising that parents are capable of teaching their children almost every subject even better than profes
6、sional teachers in the school. But the situation will not last long. We live in a world where knowledge is accumulated by multiplying and at the same time becomes more and more specialized. Therefore, to be a professional in a certain field today takes much longer time than ever before. No parent is
7、 able to be professional in all fields, though they might be experts in one or more fields. Wise parents often release rather than charge their children as early as possible. They are aware of the possibility outside the family.Parents may, nevertheless, help their children much more than do good te
8、achers. Most parts of children education are virtually beyond teachers reaches. It is parents that supplement. Psychology studies have shown us that parents love sometimes has astonishingly magic power to their children. Albert Einsteins mother and Forest Gumps mother are both good examples. On the
9、other hand, parents might do their children harm more than do bad teachers as well. The natures of those children whose parents have divorced are often severely distorted. In a word, it is rather superficial to simply say that parents are the best teachers.404 words4. It has been said, Not everythin
10、g that is learned is contained in books. Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?Both experiences and books are very essential resources, and both of them have relevant merits.Experiences are the mos
11、t direct resources we ever have. Almost our every basic skill came from experiences, such as walking, articulating, reading even thinking. Without experiences, some natural born abilities even might lose. Studies have shown that a baby who was robbed by animals into forest for 12 years lost his abil
12、ity to talk in human language. Furthermore, it is generally accepted that each and every skill develops by experiences, and thats why people always say practice makes perfect. Books are valuable when knowledge is beyond the scope of our experiences. Perhaps the most obvious examples are those fluent
13、 writers. They write various stories, the scopes of which are far beyond any individuals experiences. Take Joyce Carol Oates for example, her productivity has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, pla
14、ys and literary criticism. Although some of them appear to come from her own direct observations, her dreams, and her fears, much more is clearly from the experiences of others. Her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk
15、 shows, and the popular magazines of our day.Yet either experiences or books may give us wrong information. Our direct observations always are subject to our beliefs, hopes, fears, expectations, and our bias, which might make observations unreliable. People vary in their powers of observation, and t
16、he reliability of our observations is no better than the reliability of our memories, which as we know can be deceptive. Information printed in papers sometimes is unreliable either, it may be misprinted, or even deliberately distorted. For example, Definitions such as Marxism, Capitalism, Zionism are totally different in the Oxford Learners Dictionary of Current English between the original edition and the sanctioned Russian edition.In co
