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某英語雜志社 “家長之友”欄目要舉辦一次征文比賽,要求圍繞 “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink．”這一主題發表意見．請根據下列提示寫一篇文章．

內容提示: 許多家長望子成龍,不惜重金送孩子上私立學校,到國外留學,請家教,給他們買大量的資料,電腦等,但往往這些都……

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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.