COMMON APP ESSAY TOPIC OF CHOICE: "EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER" Daniel Guerrero My whole life I’ve been told practice makes perfect. Whether it’s in the tennis court or in math class‚ the more you practice something‚ the better you become at it. In the last few years I’ve found out that practicing and doing is not the same thing. Harry Callahan once said‚ _"experience is the best teacher"_ and without a doubt it is. You can sit five hours taking a business class or 10 hours in a tennis practice
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SLS1321-20M HW Unit 2 I firmly stand behind the belief that “experience is the best teacher”. All aspects of life can be taught‚ but to fully understand a situation I feel you need to experience it. Examples where experience is the best teacher are: shooting a gun‚ sky diving‚ playing a musical instrument‚ driving a car‚ and becoming a parent. While someone can explain how to shoot‚ release a parachute‚ park‚ learning the right breathing technique for playing the oboe‚ or change
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-First Assignment- New TOEFL iBT 2: “Parents are the best teachers.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. PS: When you are supposed to agree or disagree with a statement you must quote the statement. There are many different way of thinking regarding who are the best teachers for children. On the one hand‚ there are those who argue that parents are the best teacher. On the other hand‚ there are also those who contest such view
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Parents are the best teachers. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. There’s no doubt that parents are most children’s first teachers. They teach their children from their birth until they are mature and as much as they can later in the children’s life. However‚ they cannot teach the children academic knowledge to support their future occupations. I totally agree that parents are very important teachers in each person’s
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Parents are the best teachers There are many important people in our life who can teach us something. But the very first ones are our parents. I totally agree with the statement that parents are the best teachers. They teach us to speak‚ walk‚ ride a bike‚ behave ourselves and for all these they don’t ask anything in return. As the first teachers‚ parents plant the seeds of peace‚ love‚ respect and happiness in the minds of children at a very young age. Another advantage of parents as teacher is that they
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Apparently‚in most cases the earliest teachers people have are their parents‚and parents are normally most concerned about the development of their children.However‚it is not exactly true to say that parents are the best teacher. First of all‚not all parents are good teachers.As normal individuals‚some parents more or less have some bad habits.Although parents almost instinctively devote themselves to cultivating their offspring‚the result might turn out to be disappointment.For all their children
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lessons of life than the lessons of our teachers in school. This is undoubtedly true! Children are naturally lazy and inattentive because a failure in class doesn’t seem to matter very much -- at least at the time. After all‚ there is always the security of home. But‚ when a man comes to have his own home with payments falling due and hungry mouths to feed‚ he is afraid to be inattentive to his job because he may lose it. Harsh experience teaches him to be his best‚ because if he fails‚ he knows his employers
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Topic: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Parents experience life with their children from the beginning of their lives. Hence‚ they have taught their children many lessons. They are definitely the first teachers of their children but they are not the best teachers. Firstly‚ parents are closest to their children so it’s difficult to teach their children strictly. For example‚ it’s time
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get instruction.” However trite the proverb seems‚ we can’t deny the fact that we ought to draw some lessons from past events by examining processes we have passed through. No matter how enjoyful ‚ exciting‚ or suffering it is ‚ experience is the best teacher inspiring us to develop the royal road which leads to our pursued goals. All mankind civilization and technology achievements are evolved based on deposited knowledge from generation to generation. Newton’s first law of motion which laid entire
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Past clings to us. The actions of our forefathers‚ their experience in life pave our way at present. The books of great authors may not teach us as much as we learn from experience. Lessons of experience may be hard‚ sometimes one may get a severe blow to experience a reality. Whatever the case‚ experience is great master. Preaching‚ sermonizing may prove of no use‚ but personal experience and that too a bitter one forbids a person from repeating a folly. A man who breaks all the rules of health
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