TOEFL® essay sample: Parents are the best teachers in the life

[Alexcandy]

I'm trying my best to take the TOEFL test. Ofcourse, it should be begun with the best preparation about how to wrtite a good essay.Many thanks to whom correct my essay. :D

In my opinion, parents are the best teachers in the life for some major reasons. The first reason is that parents have more time than any others to teach you. Even when you are still a baby, parents let you hear the music to improve your brain and also your imagination. Gentle melodies make you have an opened mind and warm heart. Parents are people who always beside you through paint or happiness and give you many lessons from your mistakes. Do you realize that you don't have no more than ten years at school but nearly 30 years to learn with your parents? As a result, the more time you learn, the better you are. However, I am sure that you will wonder how much knowledge you can learn from your parents. Some answers are "A little". Some are "Nothing". If you can say "Yes" with three below questions, you have to admit that your background knowledge is the deeply root of parents' lessons:"Do your parents answer all (or nearly all) your questions about nature, society, animals...when you are a child?".Do your parents give you moral lessons after your faults or your bad behavior?". "Do they give you all the experiences in their life?" Nowadays, in a competitive society, you have to waste money, time and even the happiness or the promotion opportunities to have worthwhile lessons. But with your parents, these lessons are free. Where do you find the same? Nowhere! Therefore, knowledge is also the second reason why I suppose that parents are the best teachers. The last reason is the enthusiasm. Parents are always to teach you with all their hearts, from the least things you have to face with everyday to the turning points in your life. Children are the future and all hopes of parents. So parents always choose the best things and the most useful lessons to teach their children. They also give you the feeling of being cared and it's only a way to express their love for you. In conclusion, you have many teachers during the life and you can learn from many people, many things around you but the best teachers are always your parents.

TOEFL listening lectures: Why does the Louisiade Archipelago host more bird species than the Hawaiian Islands?

[Alan]

Hi,

In my opinion, parents are the best teachers in life for some major reasons. The first reason is that parents have more time than any others to teach you. Even when you are still a baby, parents let you hear music to improve your brain and also your imagination. Gentle melodies make you have an OPEN mind and warm heart. Parents are people who ARE always beside you through PAIN or happiness and give you many lessons from your mistakes. Do you realize that you don't have more than ten years at school but nearly 30 years to learn with your parents? As a result, the more time you learn, the better you are. However, I am sure that you will wonder how much knowledge you can learn from your parents. Some answers are "A little". Some are "Nothing". If you can say "Yes" with three questions BELOW, you have to admit that your background knowledge is deeply rootED IN YOUR parents' lessons:"Do your parents answer all (or nearly all) your questions about nature, society, animals...when you are a child?".Do your parents give you moral lessons after your faults or your bad behavior?". "Do they give you all the experiences in their life?" Nowadays, in a competitive society, you have to waste money, time and even happiness or opportunities FOR PROMOTION to have worthwhile lessons. But with your parents, these lessons are free. Where do you find the same? Nowhere! Therefore, knowledge is also the second reason why I suppose that parents are the best teachers. The last reason is enthusiasm. Parents are always READY to teach you with all their hearts, from the SMALLEST things you have to face with everyday to the turning points in your life. Children are the future and all THE hopes of parents. So parents always choose the best things and the most useful lessons to teach their children. They also give you the feeling of being cared FOR and it's only a way to express their love for you. In conclusion, you have many teachers during YOUR life and you can learn from many people, many things around you but the best teachers are always your parents.

Alan
_________________
English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Present Simple

[Zhoudianding]

I'm going to try my best to take TOEFL test,I want to make my essays excellent,may you give me some advices?
002.Are parents the best teachers?
At the beginning of us given birth to,parents are the first teachers for us.With us growing up,more roles in teachers are coming to our lives:friends\teachers\colleague;and you will discover that parents are not the best teachers.
Why aren’t parents the best teachers,there are some reasons explaining it.First,People are not perfect,parents too.we are probably affected by parents’bad habits from innateness to acquisition.Moreover,parents want their children complied with their command and studied the programs they think can make big profits or they didn’t achieve even though their children aren’t interested in.Children are endowed with some individual gifts by God.If children’s parents engage their children in jobs that is suited to their gifts,they will waste geniuses.Wanting to become good teachers should not only guide them to give play to their specialities but also to success.
Second,in general,parents are older than children.In modern epoch and future,science and technology are advancing faster and faster,which lead to knowledge being accumulated by mutiplying and social senses have a big variation.Observing things,parents will observe in past time;but it isn’t available to their children——children will observe in now time;as same as children,children’s children will observe in the future.So,as mentioned above,this is also why parents compelling their children to do the things children don’t want is wrong.In addition,children in youths,parents can teach them some programs such as language\mathematics and so on;however,some years later on,their children have grown up,they will find that they can’t teach them again in the past because of their knowledge of specialities have been far from their children.
Third,I insist,even some people become the children’s parents,they hardly become best teachers.A story in the TV programs say that a parents adopted a child unlawfully owing to the sterile wife insecure abortion,the couple became the child’s parents.they made a pet of him,they spoiled him,they complied with him even though he erred because they are not the real parents and in fact they think their doing is to be in arrears and God would be good to them if they were good to the child,the child belong to them forever.As a result,the child suffered utter defeats,become a profligate.His authentic parents whose baby had been abducted once and sold to this adoptive parents found hin later on;knowing the child’s sufferings,they decided to have the child back by lawing.At last they achieved the goal,although the couple adopting the child are reluctant to part with the child,even once prevent the authentic parents.I want to ask:Are this couple who adopted the child the best teachers?Are the couple the best parents???
As to bring up and teach us,parents is the role which isn’t short of;we should be grateful to them.But it doesn’t represent the views that we should obey our parents even make use of our parents.In sum,it is wrong to simply say that parents are the best teachers.