Topic：Are parents best teachers?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
参考分析：
因观点绝对而不能同意：不是所有的父母都是好老师；最好的老师不仅仅是父母；有些父母尽管善良，但对教育孩子一无所知；有些父母不配做孩子的老师，对孩子有不良影响。
同意父母是最好的老师：父母从小就和我们在一起，给我们很多的知识；父母和我们最为亲密，在任何时候，都会毫无保留地给我们知识；父母最了解我们，所以他们给我们的建议和意见都是最有针对性的。
精选例文讲解：
Obviously, the first teachers we have in our lives in most cases are our parents. They teach us to walk, to speak, and to have good manners before we reach “the real world. ” More than even the professional teachers that we have at school, parents are generally（通常是）the most involved in the development and education of children.（本文章开门见山，直接提出观点，并讲述一个既定存在的事实，父母是参与我们人生中发展和教育最多的人）
Almost for sure（毫无疑问的）our parents are the best teachers at the beginning of our lives, which actually corresponds to the parents' role in nature（本质上，事实上）. Parents are most committed（承担义务的，也可以说有责任的）and involved in（从事，涉及）teaching their children; they have a kind of instinct（天性，本能）to sacrifice a part of themselves for the betterment of their children. They love us and have great patience while passing down their knowledge（就是所谓的传道授业解惑）to us. They wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad things. And of course, implicit learning（就是政治中常讲的潜移默化的影响）occurs when children unconsciously copy some of their parents' habits and styles of behavior.（almost for sure 可以用there’s no denying that，there’s no doubt that 来替换，不过我觉得almost for sure 在大家的作文里还是比较少见的，可以用用看，后两者见得多了显得有些烂俗~for the betterment of their children这个地方就是我之前说到的词性替换，这样就比说make their children become better要新颖些。）
During the second stage of child development, adolescence, parents can still be in the best position to offer advice even though the children might not accept it. In this case, perhaps the child's friends would be the best teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious（众所周知的叛逆党）in many cultures and may automatically reject（不由自主地反抗）any advice from their parents. My first marriage for instance, was solely（唯一）a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to intrude in（强加入）offering their advice. So in such matters, parents should be much more flexible and be rather（宁愿做）the partners with their children. So we can see that being a teacher of growing child become more and more complicated case as the time passes and many parents are simply not able to meet the increased demands.（到这里我们可以看出来，文章分阶段讲了父母在我们儿时，青年时对我们的教导也随着我们发生了变化，家长越来越难做了）
On the other hand, I would say that parents are not professional teachers and they tend to be very biased by their love of their children（容易变得溺爱）. So wishing good things and an easy life may prevent children from maturation. In any case, parents usually can present only one viewpoint of the world, while good teaching should be based on different attitudes. Thus, when children go to school and have a great diversity（多样性，差异）of teachers, they learn much more than their parents could probably give them. Furthermore, once our parents get older, they become more conservative and cannot always be objective in regard to（关于）modern trends and fashions. Thus we need to take their advice with caution during that period. However, some kind of intuition that I believe shared between relatives about what everybody needs and great love that exists in families still makes our parents very good teachers and advisers at any time.（这一段为让步段，可见整篇文章是A+A+A—形式，让步里说了家长的教育也有不好的地方，比如容易溺爱孩子，都替孩子着想让孩子不容易变得成熟，还有随着家长年龄增长，他们会越来越保守，难以保持对现代趋势的一个客观心态。所以我们需要适当地提醒和建议，毕竟父母还是很重要的必不可少的老师）
In conclusion, while parents are not the ideal teachers, and well-rounded（多才多艺的，面面俱到的）children will generally need a great diversity of teachers in their lives in order to have a more accurate view of the world, parents are generally the most committed of all teachers and have the greatest emotional investment in their children and their future.（结尾又自圆其说给圆回来了，综述尽管父母不是最完美的，还需要老师给多方面的引导，自己还是认为父母是所有老师里面最有责任的并在我们身上投入最感人的无私贡献的人，结尾用词很好，没有直愣愣地表达自己支持父母是最好的老师这个观点，可以学习一下）
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