First writing paper in IELTS class

Topic 16: Children should never be educated at home by their parents. Do you agree or disagree?

Education from the family is regarded as one of the essential instruction for children due to its contributions to the formation of children’s personality. Nevertheless, there are still people arguing that children should never get any guidance from their parents. This essay will take a brief look at the importance of home education.

The first point is, from the very days of our life, it is parents that are in charge of providing us basic facts of life. Thanks to these facts, we learn to distinguish ‘right’ from ‘wrong’, forming a solid foundation to develop our characteristics. For example, Vietnamese parents often teach their children to respect the elders by greeting them first in conversations.

In the second place, our parents also set examples for us to follow. Because children receive most of their education from their parents at first, it is easy for them to form the habit of imitating their parents. Positively viewed, this contributes a lot to the formation of our behaviours in later life. For example, children whose parents often do charity work are likely to take voluntary work at schools because they believe their parents are good people and they want to follow them.

Finally, no kind of education can be as regular as that we receive from our parents. Since we always live with our parents until we have grown up, every act of theirs affects us in different ways, giving us endless lessons about life. Even after we have graduated from school, our parents still continue to teach us through their daily activities.

In conclusion, I would argue that, for the reasons give above, education from the family is of high importance and that disregarding its role may lead to insufficiency in human characteristics formation.