Toefl Writing: Parents should let children make mistake and let them learn from their own mistake

Do you agree or disagree with the parents should let children make mistake and let them learn from their own mistake.


If there is anyone out there who still doubts that making a mistake provide children useful experience, who still wonders if making mistake would lead children to deterioration, who still questions the power of making mistake's positive effect on children, this essay is my answer.

First and foremost, there isn't anyone could not avoid making mistake in the world. Everybody will mistake, even the god. The most important thing is correcting the mistake and learning from it, rather than trying to avoid it. Taking Jobs Steve as a good example, he has ever lost approaching two hundred and fifty million dollars in one year and has been fired by his own company. But he holds his belief that he loves what he does, and tries it once more. In his eyes, there would not be a successful people has never made a mistake or failed, but in contrast, almost all of the successful person do make a mistake, and correct it, then they could ensure that never commit a same error, at most time they treat mistake as a warning rather than a beyond repaired failure. Never making mistake nearly means never truly alive. In this point, making mistake equip children a meaningful experience.

Second, does mistake lead the child to deterioration? Actually, this situation just depends on the person's attitude to the mistake. A social institute has ever made a survey on several families, and those families were grouped in two groups. One group is consist by those parents who are insisted that their children can never make any mistake, and the other is consisted by those parents who help their children to realize the reason that cause the mistake and help them to avoid make a same mistake. The children from those two groups have two different attitudes when they make a mistake. Those children, from the first group, usually lie to their parents when they make a mistake, and make more and similar mistakes in their following days; while in contrast, the second group children usually make fewer mistakes and almost never make similar mistakes. This research suggests us that a positive attitude to the mistake can effectively reduce the chance that children commit the same mistake. Nevertheless, a negative attitude can just lead the children commit more mistake and never learn any useful experiences. In the sense, the attitude rather than the mistake is the important thing that leads the children to deterioration.

The social institute has made a sequential research on those group children's development, they find that almost all of the children of the first group serve as the management of company or the leader of the government, however, children, from the first group, nearly none of them can get success in their career, what worse, some of them become a liar, a thief or some other criminal. This research indicates that making mistake has positive effects on children.

In the nutshell, making mistake provide children useful experience; a positive attitude to making mistake lead children to success; the effect of making mistake is benefit to children development.

Toefl Writing: it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything is correct

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

In today's world, it is more important to work quickly and risk making mistakes than to work slowly and make sure that everything is correct.

If there is anyone out there who is still doubts that a careful working provides us a good effect, who still wonders whether a sophisticated thought equips us with a better result, who still questions that the correct choic contributes us to realize our goal. This essay is my answer.

A careful working means that people pay more attention on their job's details, such as accountants' attentions on those numbers especial on the points of decimal, programmers' attentions on the usage of RAM, or investors' attentions on subtle economic changes. With careful attitude, a programmer could design a well-running project with less bug in it; with careful attitude, an accountant could do a precise account without any error in it; with careful attitude, an investor could do a successful investment. Jobs Steve, a careful and wisdom person, is a good example. He made lots of investments, such as iPod, iPad, iPhone etc. All of those earn numbers of money and make he get what he want-the fame, the wealth and the success. While, before he made a decision to invest lots in those projects,  he did lots of researches in the customers' perference; he investigated the market requirement; he also studied the economic development. Then he finally got a careful and detailed blueprint of Apple's development, leading his eventual success. Just take an assumption that Jobs made a quick decision without any researches about the market and the customers' requirement; or made a risk investment on other thing without investigation about economic development in America. He might not be able to acquire the development trend of the electronic equipment, as a consequence, he could not make a right decision on investment. Maybe he will develop electronic dictionary or other electronic equipment. Then  he would not get so much profit from those equipments and people would not have the iPhone, iPad and iPod to use, today. In this sense, careful working is very meaningful to people.


A sophisticated thought means that people will think twice before they make a decision. As the Confucius says, "Look before you leap.", think over before you make a decision is so important that will lead you to success or to failure. For instance, once my mother made a quick decision to buy a cyclopaedia in an amazing high price, when she heard that a book store was selling a kind of limited edition cyclopaedia. This book had been described as the one and the only one which contains most detailed information about china ancient document. At last, she found it was sold abundant in another bookshop in a low price. How harmful it is to make decision quickly without a sophisticated consideration. There is an assumption that if my mother takes more time to go around to do a investigation or to think over about the whole thing, she would find the book store's advertisement is exaggerated, and she would not be cheated. In this sense, a sophicticated plan is more important than a quick and risk decision.

In the nutshell, a correct and sophsiticated decision is more important than a quick response for either people's career development or their life.

Toefl Writing: What is the most important quality for both political and commercial leaders

What is the most important quality for both political and commercial leaders? Is it the creativity, the openness, or the responsibility? In fact, all of those qualities are important, but the most important quality, I believe, is responsibility. This essay is the answer.


Creativity, one of the important qualities of a leader, is the ability to think differently, to get outside of the box that constrains solutions. Creativity gives leaders the ability to see things that others have not seen and thus lead followers in new directions. While not all of those new ideas are correct, there might be some errors come from a wrong decision made by leadership. For instance, the leadership of our country once made a decision that led people to commit to produce more and more porn during the time of natural disaster, without considering about the capacity of farmers and soil. This decision resulted our country into a Great Leap Forward Time, when all of leaders in villages reported a false and large number of the crop to the central management, while, in fact, there didn’t have so much crops could be used as food in the natural disaster time. Then, there were lots of people had been starved during that time. Therefore, although a creative idea is very important, the leader should also consider about the realistic and do an appropriate policy or response to their mistake. Just as our following leaders – Deng Xiaoping made a new policy to develop our economy, which lead us could live a well life. In this sense, creativity does not as important as the responsibility.

Another vital quality of leaders -- openness means being able to listen to new ideas, even if they do not conform to the usual way of thinking. Good leaders should be able to suspend judgment while listening to others’ ideas, as well as accept new ways of doing things that someone else thought of : Openness builds mutual respect and trust between leaders and followers, and it also keeps the team well supplied with new ideas that can further its vision. Actually, the openness is another form of responsibility to their fault. Every people would make a fault whatever he is a staff or a manger. So the openness becomes more important when the manger makes an error decision and his employee proposes a correct method, the manger should adopt the employee’s proportion and do a responsibility for his fault. This suggests the importance of responsibility.

Responsibility, another vital and the most important quality of leaders, means taking personal responsibility for failures. A good leader should be magnanimous to his followers, and severe to themselves. This sort of reverse magnanimity helps other people feel good about them and draws the team closer together. To spread the fame and take the blame is a hallmark of effective leadership. So the responsibility is the most important quality of leaders.

In the nutshell, the most important quality of leaders is responsibility to their own fault.

Toefl Writing: Should people live in a same place or move from one to another

While many people advocate that they are prefer living in a same place to moving to other place. Although living in a same place is expediency, there are myriad people are always living and working in different place. What is the reason?

The first reason involves external pressure that comes from lives and social. These people who need to earn to feed on themselves and to support their families, have been exposed to lots of pressure from different directions, especially in those remote developed place, which provided limited work opportunities and source. In such tough economic situation, those who cannot earn themselves, naturally decide to move to a new job market to find more work chance in order to undertake the responsibility to support their family. This explains the immigration tendency in some place. In this point of sense, moving to a new place is necessary and inevitable.

More important, there might be some internal factors. Migrating to other city or country for some people, is considering a new studying and working circumstance, and some new experiences. For example, studying abroad is a fashionable tendency in China. It is estimated that approximate 20 percent of Chinese students are willing to visit a foreign country for their further study. They can not only gain cut-edge knowledge, but also share different experiences and culture with them, both of them is helpful for their development.

Moreover, the increased number of various work emerge in the whole world, one of five workers would be with their employers less than one year. The desire for new job market and high salary drives people for new job, and this would not be limited by geography factor. As a consequence, there are more and more people moving to other place to chase their dream.

However, for most people, it is unrealistic that always moving from a place to another. One who need comfort and security, which derive from human natural ability to some extent, chose a place for stable life, especially for those people who have children. Moreover, homesick would be another reason driving them back home.

In the nutshell, it is positive for people's development, on either study and work, and necessary for some external reasons. Nevertheless, people cannot always moving from one place to another, just like those people who cannot always living in a same place.

Toefl Writing: Should university professors spend more time doing research or spend more time educating students

Some people think university professors should spend more time doing research while others think they should spend more time educating students. What is your view?

What should a responsible professor do to fulfill their responsibility? Should they spend more time on doing research or on educating students? While lots of people believe that the university professors would better use more time on educating students, I absolutely hold a conserve attitude. The following points would suppport my idea.

First and foremost, a meaningful research provides these students more chance to use their theoretic knowledge in practice. As we known, it isn't benefit to students that only teach them theoretic knowledge, without providing any practical opportunities. As a consequence, those students would be lack in pragmatic experience. When they graduate from university they might be adapted to the work circumstance harder than those who have pragmatic experience. It is quite a good opportunity to work with their professor in the research. So, in this sense, doing research is really a worthy choice for a smart professor.

Actually, it is undeniable that a responsible professor should pay enough attention on his students' education. Whereas, there are kinds of teaching methods, such as multimedia teaching method, demonstration method, memorization method, recitation method,etc. The most useful method, I believe, is teaching students in practice. When the students work with their professor in certain research, the professor can give them direct and useful conduction, which is more meaningful to them than give them abstract concept in classroom. Then, in this case, doing research also contributes lots to the students.

Additionally, doing research can effectively exercise students' analysis ability through providing them more chances to solve puzzles by themselves. Analysis ability is quite vital for people's career development, which makes them to solve lots of problems in their work. To this point, doing research is also benefit to people's career development.

In the nutshell, doing research is quite well for both universities' professors and students. Professor should spend more time on them, without nelegcting their students' education.

Toefl Writing: Making Friends with Intelligent People or Humor People

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to make friends with intelligent people than with people who have a good sense of humor.

Is it better to make friends with intelligent people better than with humoristic people, as the statement mention? I am totally agreed with this statement. The following points will support my opinion.

First and foremost, intelligent people usually have innovated ideas, analysis ability or other genius, which are helpful to expending our horizon, achieving our goal and gaining success. For example, Peter Thiel and Accel's friend Mark Zuckerberg, an intelligent people in computer, helps them to realize their creative idea - developing a genuine network. Both Peter and Accel don't be good at network designing and software programming though, but, as perfect businessmen, they have innovated business vision and fund. Finally, they achieve their own goals, earning money and realizing imagination. As a consequence, making friends with intelligent people gives us more opportunities to succeed.

Second, intelligent people always have positive attitude to chase their dream, which could encourage us to work hard for our destination. It is a good example that students are always eager to gain the admissions from Ivy League universities, which can provide more opportunities for them meeting intelligent people and good study circumstance. An investigation shows that one the most important differences between Ivy League universities and common universities is the circumstance. The circumstance often contains teaching facilities, professors' abilities and other students' attitudes. Particularly, the schoolmates' positive attitude toward their career is the most vital factor to their further development. In this point of sense, we should make friend with intelligent people.

Third, it is undeniable that those who have a good sense of humor surely provide us lots of pleasure and happiness. However, in fact, major of intelligent people always have good sense of humor. For instance, Yu Minhong, the CEO of New Orient School, usually show his sense of humor in his class, attracting numerous of students to his class.

In the nutshell, it is positive for people's development, on either study or future career. Nevertheless, it is also benefited that make friends with kinds of people, either smart people or humoristic people.