Family Education’s Role

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What is Education?

Education is defined as the activities of instructing; the gradual process of acquiring knowledge and skills, and also something more profound including critical thinking and well-developed wisdom.
Formal education is known that the students are educated in school, are taught and trained by professional teachers, which currently stresses school curriculum focusing on academic knowledge and specific skills.

What is Family Education?

Informal education includes knowledge and skills learned and refined during the course of life, including education that comes from home and experience in practicing a job.
Parenting is defined as a process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood. Parents involved in their children’s education at home, which is called family education.

Family Education’s Role

Family education is the earliest education children receive; parents are their first teacher and the most important teacher of their life. Family education not only provides children academic assistance on their school work, but also, even more importantly provides extra-curricular guidance on cultural values, taught and modeled by parents.

Family education in my opinion does make big difference on the children’s development and success! Because parents know their children best and can act the key role to help their children to achieve high EQ, which is the key factor to achieve success. Family education plays an essential role on helping children moral and spiritual development, and nurturing the child’s natural curiosity and eagerness to learn. Parents’ believes have great impact on children. These are the roots parents can give their children.

The current formal education system provides one curriculum, one teaching environment, and one teaching methodology to fit all students’ learning needs. While we know that each individual child is unique, the most effective way to educate children is to meet the needs of each child by family education.

Family education encourages parents to play a central role in supporting a child’s unique learning style, help the child identify and respect his or her own learning strengths, interests, talents, and needs, help the child discover his or her dreams, passions, and goals, give him or her the wings of motivation and purpose for becoming an eager, self-directed learner. For learning success, the child’s interests, talents, expectations, and goals are best motivators.

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2 Responses to “Family Education’s Role”

  1. jinting Says:
    社会中的人,首先得到的是家庭教育.家庭文化的积累,一代给一代打基础,为下一代健康成长,早日成才积累了丰富的经验:少壮不努力,老大图伤悲,这是普遍规律.孩子要成才,还少不了学校教育和社会教育.家庭教育还要跟上学校和社会地步伐,相辅相成,方能成功!

    After a child was born, he or she firstly receives family education. Family education is based on family culture, which is accumulated by one generation to next generation, laying the foundation for the healthy development of next-generation. Like the old adage “if a person does not work hard when he is young, he will surfer when he gets old”, which is the universal law. There are a lot of factors influence children, including school education and social education. Family education has to keep up with the pace of school education and social education to complement each other in order to succeed!
  2. cana Says:
    我同意你说的对大部分家庭来说家庭教育应该和学校教育相辅相成。在美国也有一些孩子不去学校全靠家庭教育。有的主要是靠母亲教育,有的有钱的家庭聘请专任教师。

    I agree with you on most of the families, family education and school education should complement each other. In the United States there are some children do not go to school, they depend on family education. Some mothers teach their children all the courses, and some rich families hire full-time teachers for their children’s education.

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