Parents are the best teachers

‘Whether parents are our best teachers or not’ is a never-ending debate and
people are divided both in favour and against this argument. Both have a very
strong contribution and influence on a child’s learning but in my opinion, parents
overtake the teachers in terms of teaching their children.
First of all, I would like to point out that a teacher is not merely a person
who takes a text book and read texts from there to a student. Rather a teacher is
someone who devotes his/her times to teach someone everything that someone
needs to know to advance to next step. Morality, intricacies of life, subject matter
knowledge, art, science, history, value of time etc. are something that can’t be
taught through academic books and a good teacher is someone who teaches
someone these all.
Now that we know the true responsibility of a teacher, we can easily
compare our parents and teachers. The things that we learn from our parents are far
more important than what we learn from our teachers. I am not denying the
invaluable knowledge we learn from our teachers through our academic years, but
what we learn from our parents are incomparable. We learn to survive, talk, and
distinguish well from bad, values of life, morality and such important other things
from our parents. We are the true reflection of our parents and our characters are
shaped by their personality and behaviours. Later the teachers help us to enhance
our knowledge, horizon and our view of life but the very foundation and ground
are made by our parents.
The parents sacrifice so many things of their life just to ensure a better life
for us and nothing in this whole world could even be compared with their sacrifice
for us. Think of a student who is unable to pay his/her monthly school fees would
be cast away from the school and the beloved teachers would scarcely be there to
help him/her. On the other hand, the parents would always be there with their
every possible effort to help the child.
In summary, the things we learn from our teachers are important for our
lives and with those valuable lessons and knowledge we prepare for the future but
the things we learn from our parents shapes who we are, who we become and their
contribution is much more important compared to the contribution of the
traditional academic teachers and that’s why in my opinion parents are best
teachers.