A recent investigation shows that about 70 percent of middle school students in cities have private tutors. Such a popular practice indicates that parents are attaching greater importance to their children's education. However, private tutoring has both advantages and disadvantages.
On the one hand, many parents have not enough ability or time to help their children in study. Private tutoring is a good solution to this problem. In addition, private tutoring is usually one-to-one, so the teacher can know the weak points as well as the strong points of the pupil, and thus teaching is, in most cases, directly to the point.
On the other hand, private tutoring has its own disadvantages. For one thing, it takes up so much of the pupil’s time that he can hardly find enough time for rest and entertainment. For another, some tutors, busy “shuttling” from one family to another, tend to be unable to concentrate on their teaching duties as tutors.
Considering the above-mentioned, I think the disadvantages of private tutoring outweigh its advantages. In my opinion, greater emphasis should be laid on classroom teaching and practice, on the improvement of teaching quality and on the tapping of the pupil’s potential. Only in this way can a new generation be healthily brought up.
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最近的一项调查显示，在城市的中学生百分之70有私人导师。这种流行的实践表明，家长更加重视孩子的教育。然而，家教既有优点和缺点。
一方面，许多家长没有足够的能力或时间来帮助他们的孩子在学习。家教是很好的解决了这个问题。此外，私人辅导通常是一对一，所以老师可以知道薄弱点以及学生的长处，因此教学是，在大多数情况下，直接点。
另一方面，家教也有自己的缺点。首先，它需要这么多的学生的时候，他没有足够的时间休息和娱乐。另一方面，一些教师，忙于“穿梭”从一个家庭到另一个，往往无法专心于教学工作的教师。
鉴于上述，我认为家教的弊大于利。在我看来，更应该注重课堂教学与实践，对提高教学质量和学生的攻丝的潜力。只有这样，新一代的健康成长。