Education 21

Education is very important nowadays when the world experiences the boom of knowledge-based economy. Different countries have diverse approaches to developing education system; each has its weak and strong sides. However, many people go beyond the usual state-founded tuition in their wish to provide their children with the best education possible. They believe they are the best teachers for their children themselves and therefore able to teach their children at home.

On one hand, supporters of this point of view are right in the asserting that they know their children better than anybody else as they have been interacting with them the whole life and therefore know in which ways their offsprings accept information better. Besides, we are successful people, they say, and we know how to foster our sons and daughters in such a way they will be able to achieve our success and even overcome it.

On the other hand, there is always a threat that these self-confident parents underestimate all the difficulties of teaching on the way to the good, versatile education. Looking back at the times they were pupils they can easily overlook small bricks of knowledge seeming unimportant now but nevertheless crucial. If a man or a woman is a lawyer, for instance, he or she can neglect importance of, let's say, Biology. However, their child can have no longing for jurisprudence but have ability to become a famous Biologist. It is very important to have all the doors open at the very beginning!

In conclusion, I would like to express my own opinion. Honestly speaking, I am personally not ready to bear the full burden of my children's education. However, at the same time I am sure my explanations in Mathematics or Physics will be very useful for my kids and therefore I am trying to keep and renew the knowledge of that disciplines I still posses since my graduating. So, I believe the rule of the gold middle is applicable here as well as in many others cases.