Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well.