Parents are the Best Teachers for their kids?

Recently, the number of children who learn at home has been increasing so rapidly, and many parents seem to think that they are the best teachers for their offspring. However, others, including many education experts worry about this phenomenon, and try to persuade the adults saying that public school and official teacher are the best for the children’s growth. In my opinion, I also strongly believe that parents are often not the best teachers for the young.

First of all, parents lack professional knowledge for education. While the school teachers have learned sophisticated pedagogy, children’s behaviors and other important educational information before they become educators, parents have no professional skills to teach their children unless they are the official teachers themselves. Sometimes this could lead to very detrimental for the juvenile because they may not get enough and proper education due to the parents’ inappropriate educational methods. According to numerous researches, people who didn’t completed basic formal education courses at school tend to feel hard to harmonize with society. This fact means that the only education provided by parents is not enough for children to be well-matured people in the future.

Secondly, parents can’t teach their children on the objective standards. Since all parents have certain degree of instinctive, absolute love for their children, they usually can’t punish the young very well. In other words, they tend to embrace their children’s faults even if the mistakes are seriously needed to be fixed. As a result, the youth may not understand what is wrong, and sometimes can’t distinguish the bad from the good. Recently, many articles debunk the social trend that parents have become so benevolent for their children, making them reckless, rude, who are now called “mama boy” or “papa girl”

Lastly, a formal education detached from the parents is very crucial for young students to mature as independent social beings. Unlike parents, teachers from public institution can treat the students more evenly. In addition, the instructors help to understand what our society is, which is quite different from their family and household. For example, most American parents send their children to go camping, school, and other public places without them, since the immature are needed to have some experience being far away from home in order to be independent beings.

Of course parents have some qualities that are unique and very helpful for educating the children. Still, it is more important for the young to have formal education since the school, and other public institution can provide them professional knowledge and social experience, which are can not be given by their parents. Regarding that more people still want the school teachers and most parents are not the most suitable for education, we should reconsider whether parents are the “best” even for their children’s social education.

a movie talk-Swiri-2.my comment

      I think the main message this film brings to us is the reality of two Koreas’ ironic situation, which can be called the ‘silent war.’ Still, Koreans suffer from the disunion of two Korean governments. Superficially, the high officials of both sides try to reunite together, but in the deep sense, no one truly attempts to understand the other and wants to be a unitary state because they worry about that they have to give up something they enjoy during the isolation.


      This political sequence is depicted well in at the end of the film. In contrast with the dejected end of love that Joong-Won and Bang-Hee kept, the sports stadium was filled with the outcry of spectators who shouted the reunion of Korea.


      At the same time, the movie implies another point. The reunion of two Koreas can be possible when it is supported by Korean people’s true awareness about this reality on the unification. And that understanding of the actual situation shouldn’t be concerned only with political advantage. Sadly, the problem regarding the unity of Korea has been ‘only’ dealing with the political issues, neglecting the simple fact that we, Koreans, were the ‘same’ people in the ‘same’ nation just some 60 years ago. Now, I also believe Koreans should consider more about the history, ethnicity, and society before short-sighted benefits that previous politicians pursued. After that, the sincere unification of Koreas will come.


-pictured someday in the future-

A movie talk-Swiri-1.story

What I want to tell you at here as one of the great Korean films is Swiri(shiri). The director if the movie is Je-Kyu Kang. The released date is February 13th, 1999. It was starred with Seok Kyu Han, Min-Sik Choi, Kang-Ho Song, Yoon-Jin Kim. First, let me tell you about the story of the film.

One day, as the agents at the national top secret security bureau(OP), Joong-Won Yoo (Seok Kyu Han) and his partner Jang-gil Lee were supposed to meet a weapon swindler who suggested them to give information about a sabotage. However, the information provider was suddenly killed by someone, and Joong-Won instinctively perceived that the sniping was related with the top sniper in North Korea, Bang-Hee Lee.


After a brief investigation, the secret agents found out the news that the opponent tried to get a destructive bomb and that a special force of North Korea already took the explosive. The counter terrorists tried to catch them, but the trial was failed as if someone inside their team provided information to the terrorist. Beyond the suspicion against each other in the group, Joong-Won noticed a tragic fact that his girlfriend was the bomber whom he was pursuing.


Finally, the spy teams of both sides met in a soccer stadium. Along with the extremely tensed situation, the South Korea operative discovered and defused the bomb, but Jang-gil was killed and Bang-Hee was still alive. At the end of the running fight, Joong-Won found her when she was targeting a South Korea official. The eyes of the lovers met temporarily, and two continuous gunshots followed soon. One that failed to assassinate the officer and one that penetrated her by. In the end, while police arrive at the site and Joong-Won felt something mournful, the two Korea friendship soccer match at the stadium finished peacefully.

Um...capitalism?-2

this situation, adopting more market-based econmy, is really absurd, because the more we try to be liberal on market, the more serious the economic depression will be.
Why? As you know, as the customers of market are everyone in society, economic destruction of any economic class can negatively affect to the whole groups participating in market. Moreover, because the capitalism can be more disasterous as the economic policy become more 'liberal', The government should control appropriately the market; however, the reality is going to the opposite.

The evidence of this economic catastrophe is easy to find; the current situation of US. Now, that nation, which seems to be the economic superpower and the precursor of free market and neo liberalism, is beginning to fall at least in economic field. The true reason of its depression is its government's foolish economic policy.(well...I can bet you that no economists can disagree with my opinion, completely.)

So I think we shouldn't just regard capitalism as the 'present of god' or the 'perfect system'...as someone did... . We need to find better economic system that can truly make the market work appropriately. (so that no more f***ing hedge fund and diabolical monopoly and M&A can exist.)

I believe capitalism is a success, but we shouldn't be satisfied with this small success. We should devise a better social and economic system so that everyone can compete fairly! Yes...we must do the job to realize the justice of society and of the world.

I hope that in the future, I can see the world in which everyone can get as much as they try hard. We can make it.


-plus: I'm not marxist, though.

Um.... capitalism?-1

Um....yes...capitalism.....the system adopted by the society I live in...the system which many people sxtol for the general quality lives of ordinary people......one of the most debatable system as the best economic system...

I suddenly thoguht about capitalism when I passed by the road, near which many restaurants emanate(?) the smell of meats....the problem is...I have no money...

Yes. It's the truth of capitalism. Obviously, it developed the economy with unprecedented speed, and many people have overcome their absolute poverty. Truly, it is revolutionarily good thing.

But let's think more deeply. you would also know 'unprecedented' number of the poor compared to the number of the rich. It's the truth of capitalism, too.

Moreover, I perceived capitalism doesn't exist for 'everyone' except those who can afford to buy products. come to think about an example. You may be impressed by the huge and ornate buildings in many cities. But they are, literally, not 'for you'. al the abundance of jewelries and dishes is simply for the people who have money.

yes, I acknowledge that it's not the problem itself. The problem is, captitalim triggers this disparity and solarity of wealth, if the system doesn't be revised or supported by many other 'social' methods. In spite of this crucial fact, the world tries to be more 'capitalistic' in the name of neo liberalism, to overcome the economic depression.



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