As the speaker claims that the socialization of children determines the destiny of society, education for children plays a vital role on social development, and we are usually confused with varieties of methods for educating children. Although the kinds and amount of knowledge increase so quickly that we are meshed with how to educate children all the knowledge, we must distinguish which part of knowledge is more important than the others. Furthermore, I think our children need three fundamental abilities which parents should consider teaching at first, independence, tolerance and communication.
Specific circumstances of our society vary too fast that the knowledge from teachers and parents usually can not match the facts. Thus, in order to face and resolve problems that our children may not meet before, independence is necessary for children. For example, as a result of the internationalization, we keep in touch with foreign countries frequently today, while we just communicated with native people 20 years ago. How to trade with foreign without troubles is a big question. We need to acquaint ourselves with the ethos and the culture of foreigners, and then we are armed at these to provide proper commodities. Solving problems by ourselves supplies us a larger possibility to success.
We are often besieged by frustrations which depress us. Tolerating these failures is another basic ability children should master. Before hawks hover in the sky, young hawks have fallen hundreds times; Before a seed grow into a tree, it must suffer with raining, freezing, and blustering; And before Thomas Edison finally invented the bulb, he had tested over one thousand materials as filament. On the contrary, we often heard news about suicide on campus. Those dead people could not withstand sufferings and come to tragedies. These tragedies is worthy of our reflection. What parents should do with is to patiently comfort their children and to help them restore their courage. A strong heart is a prerequisite for achieve their goals.
Finally, in order to gain more resource and to share others' ideas, communication is certainly a requisite ability. While science has developed into a high level, it is hard for scientists to master the whole of their majors. They could just master several branches of their own majors, but these are far incomplete for present researches. About one hundred years ago, the Nobel Prize for chemistry was usually earned by one chemist, but the Nobel Prize was shared by several chemists recent years. That means finishing an eminent research is becoming really difficult for just one person. Cooperation and communication are increasingly significant nowadays.
In sum, how to raise our children is a complicated question. In my view, we should pay attention to these essential abilities. To teach our children surpasses to give our children fish.