This essay was written by Tran, van Dien in 1960.
Introduction
School is the place
where students attend every day to learn academic subjects and where parents
leave their children to the professors’ care for education. School is still a
place from where will come out good citizens of a country. But a French writer
wrote: “ Family is a very good school”.
According to him, family has given us useful lessons to become good citizens
for society. Let us find out the meaning of it and appreciate its value.
Body of the essay
1.---Explanation
1.---Family
is a school: The role of the
mother in family is very important. She is both a mother and an educator. It is
on his mother’s knees that a child stammers his first lesson of language. At
the age of about three, the baby’s young mind begins to develop very quickly.
He inquires about everything happening around him, just to satisfy his
curiosity and thirst for knowledge. So, a general knowledge is required for a
mother to answer her children’s question. Family is a kind of kindergarten
where children acquire a general knowledge which is the base of the
school-education.
2.---Family
is a very good school: Family
does not teach academic subjects as school does, but the influence family plays
upon a child’s heart and mind is stronger and more efficient. It is in family,
not in school that he learns the right and wrong, good manners, sympathy and
love. All those qualities are more necessary for him than the abstract and
bookish lessons of school.
2.---Comment
The above sentence offers a valuable
lesson about the importance of family from educational point of view. It still
means that the education a child gets from his family is no less, if not more
important than the education he gets at school. The above sentence is perfectly
right if it is applied to the nation which considers family as a basic unit of
society. In such a country, a good child in the family will be a good citizen
in society. But in the society where family does not prevail, the sentence has
only a relative value.
Conclusion
To sum up, we can say that school
only trains specialists but family forms good citizens who know how to behave
towards themselves and others.
