Mother's Day is just around the corner and that means that finals are soon approaching. We will spend one day showing our mothers our appreciation by buying them flowers, taking them out to restaurants, and sending them cards. Then they will spend weeks pushing their kids through finals, finding private tutoring services, and making sure that those final projects get in on time, only to then have to come up with a plan for the summer.
This got me thinking about just how important mothers are when it comes to education. School teachers and private tutoring services instructors are all important to students' education, but mothers give us role models that teach us how to learn. In a 2010 article from England's "The Telegraph," the connection between mothers and success in school was made.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8012011/Mothers-are-strongest-role-models-for-childrens-education-report-claims.html
In that article Prof. Ian Walker says, "It seems the mother-daughter relationship is now the transmission mechanism for social mobility. It used to be said that the father was the breadwinner and that would dictate household education decisions. If the father was richer you could afford to stay on at school rather than go out to earn a living. That is clearly no longer the case."
Walker's study found that the longer mothers stayed in school, the longer their sons and daughters would stay in school. Mothers with graduate degrees would most likely have children who would go on to earn graduate degrees. Interestingly, the educational level of fathers did not seem to have nearly as much of an impact.
This Mother's Day you can thank your mother for one more thing, education. Mothers, you can be proud. What better gift can you give your children than education.
The team here at Tried & True Tutoring wants to thank all the mothers out there who inspire their children to seek education. Happy Mother's Day!
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