A recent investigation shows that about 80 percent of pupils have private tutors.Such a popular practice indicates that people are attaching greater importance to education. Many parents, for various reasons, missed the chance of obtaining a good education. When their children meet with difficulties in study, they are helpless. Private tutoring is the only solution. As private tutoring is usually one-to-one, the teacher knows the strong points as well as the weak points of the pupil clearly.
    However, private tutoring has its own disadvantages. For one thing, it takes up so much of the pupils’ time that they can hardly find enough time for rest and entertainment, which are essential for their physical and mental health. For another, some teachers, busy “shuttling” from one family to another, tend to neglect their regular teaching duties. What’s more, some teachers are eager to help pupils do well in the test, offering the so-called tips for test-taking rather than help them acquire what is more meaningful.
    Generally speaking, its disadvantages outweigh its advantages. Greater emphasis should be laid on classroom teaching and practice, on the improvement of teaching quality and on the tapping of pupils’ potentials. Only in this way can a new generation be healthily brought up.
    近的一項調查顯示，大約有百分之80的學生有私人教師，這種普遍的做法表明，人們對教育的重要性越來越大。許多家長因種種原因錯過了獲得良好教育的機會。當他們的孩子遇到困難的學習，他們是無奈的。私人輔導是的解決辦法。由于私人輔導通常是一對一的，老師知道學生的長處和薄弱點清楚。
    然而，私人家教有它自己的缺點。對于一件事，它占用了這么多的學生的時間，他們很難找到足夠的時間休息和娛樂，這是必不可少的，他們的身體和精神健康。另一方面，一些教師，忙碌的“穿梭”從一個家庭到另一個，往往忽視了他們的正常教學工作。更重要的是，一些老師渴望幫助學生在考試中做得很好，提供所謂的考試技巧，而不是幫助他們獲得更為有意義的東西。
    一般而言，其弊大于利。課堂教學與實踐教學，提高教學質量，提高學生潛能。只有這樣才能健康地成長。