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某英语杂志社 “家长之友”栏目要举办一次征文比赛,要求围绕 “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink．”这一主题发表意见．请根据下列提示写一篇文章．

内容提示: 许多家长望子成龙,不惜重金送孩子上私立学校,到国外留学,请家教,给他们买大量的资料,电脑等,但往往这些都……

注意事项: 投稿人应提示内容,表明自己的观点

 

Answer 1

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Nowadays, knowledge is becoming more and more important with the development of society, so many parents expect the children to be useful or successful．　　　　

They spare no effort to offer their children as good a chance as possible: They not only send them abroad for further education and to private schools at great expenses, but also hire personal teachers．They buy all kinds of learning materials, computers and so on．But no matter what their parents do for the children, what becomes of the children? Some of them really make it, but most of them want to enjoy and relax themselves and at last they are really disappointing．

This proves the meaning of the saying “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink．” That is to say, you can give someone all the opportunities for success, but you can’t make every person successful.