"Parents are the best teachers" - agree or disagree. (An IELTS essay. Please help me to know what my mistakes are.)
Yes, I'm being fussy. ;) Still, it may give you some guidelines for punctuation and format.
The parents are usually the first people who a child faces with encounters but if are they the best teachers for their children in their lives? In this essay I will discuss about the issue.
Be careful of confusing certain phrases. <em>Face</em> and <em>describe</em> are transitive verbs, so you never add a preposition after them. You can <em>talk about something</em>, or you can <em>describe something</em>. <em>Be faced with</em> only exists as passive voice.
Some people argue that it is the parents who truly teach their children - that they are the best for this purpose. Everything from starting to speak to managing one's day-to-day existence is taught by parents. They can hand down customs and traditions to their children. Every culture is kept alive through teaching children at home. Some people also believe that the best school for their children is home.
Although it may be true that parents teach their own children in the best way they believe that is appropriate, they are not always the best teachers per se. There are many things in this world which a child needs to learn from school, friends, nature and the environment. A teacher in a school can be better than a mother in teaching the child lessons, plus the school environment can help a child to be a competitive person.
Also, a child in the within a society can learn different kinds of attitudes and views whereas at home he or she can only take on the parents' ideas and views, which is maybe not effective or the best! Maybe the society can be a better teacher in regards to being more sociable.
Nature also is an amazing teacher, helping individuals to think of why and how the planet was made. There is a saying that, “the best teacher is the nature”.
All in all, although parents may teach their children many different things, there are many other resources which can be better than parents. The teachers at schools, friends, nature and society are also good teachers. Therfore I do not agree that parents are the best teachers.
Good work. As well as correcting the errors, I've offered some alternative phrases and more appropriate words. I've also added some words to shape the text and give it flow. Feel free to ask about any corrections I've made.