子は親を見て育つ

“Educate yourself to boost achievement in kids”(EurekAlert!),

“If you want your kids to do well in school, then the amount of education you get yourself is important,” said Pamela Davis-Kean, a psychologist at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR). “This may mean that parents need to go back to school.
“A growing number of large-scale, long-term studies now show that increasing parental education beyond high school is strongly linked to increasing language ability in children. Even after controlling for parental income, marital status and a host of other factors, we find that the impact of parental education remains significant."
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“In every case, we’ve found that an increase in parental education has a positive impact on children’s success in school,” said Davis-Kean. “And this impact is particularly strong when parents start with a high school education or less.
“These findings may be reassuring to parents at a time when many are unemployed or worried about future job prospects. They clearly show that in terms of the effect on children’s achievement, it’s more important for parents to get a good education than to get a high-paying job. Of course, the more education you have, the more likely it is that you’ll find a good job, so an increase in education often leads to an increase in income."

子供の学力を上げるには親が学習する¹のが良いかも知れないという話．そして，その親の学習の影響は親の収入の影響よりも大きく²，親の元の学力が低いほどその影響力は大きい³らしい…