TOEFL WRITING -1

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Good teachers are more important to a child’s development than good parents.(COMPLETED in time)

Some people think that good teachers are more important to a child’s development than good parents, for me, I think it depends on varied situations, but generally good parents are more important than good teachers.

Teachers teach and guide students at school, and parents do the same thing after school. In addition, parents show a child how they live their lives, how they handle daily problems, how they treat different kinds of people, etc. Since a child usually spends more time with parents than teachers, generally parents have more influence on children.

On the contrary, a good teacher can mean a teacher with good teaching materials and attitude, which would supplement what parents miss to mention or teach, so it would be valuable to a child’s development. However, usually a teacher needs to take care of a couple or even dozens of students under limited time and activities, so he/she may not be able to understand and affect each student deeply as their parents do. When adults commit crimes, our first reaction to their abnormal behaviors is, “How their parents teach them?” Rarely the responsibility of child’s development lies on teachers, so good teachers are less important than good parents.

Take me for example, I have lived with my parents for 24 years, but only had been taught by different teachers for 16 years, most of whom lost contact with me when I finished my studies. As a result, most of them are not highly responsible for my mental growth. My parents treat me with love, caring, patience, and wisdom, so I can attribute 90 percent of my development to my parents teaching and breeding. A lot of people might share the same life experience as I do, so it is fair to say that good parents are more important to a child’s development.