▶ Your Answer :
In today’s society, it is widely believe
that friends have a great impact on students. Some people advocate that most
students spend amount of time with their friends. However, I disagree with this
view. Upon closer examination, it is obvious that students are more influenced
by their teachers than by their friends in that students are educated by
teachers and students respect their teachers.
Frist
of all, teachers have an influence on their student by teaching something. In
other words, teachers are able to convey not only educational knowledge but
also their thought. So students are likely to be exposed to teacher’s own idea
with respect to politics and social problems.
In my own experience, when I was a freshman in university, I took an
introduction to economics course. That time, professor spent most of time on
talking about real problems in our society rather than teaching a text books.
He always said that government involvement was important solution in order to
escape and prevent financial crisis. So that time, I had a perspective that
government is important factor in the real world. However, when I was senior, I
took economic history class. In this class, the professor emphasized the
principle of free market. It was opposite opinion that I knew. So after taking
this class, my point of view about economics was changed. In this sense, I
think student are susceptible to knowledge as well as perspective teachers
convey.
On
top of that, students are more affected by teachers because most students
respect for their teacher. To be specific, whenever students have some problem
and worry, they want to go teacher’s office to get advice. This is because they
trust and depend on their teacher. For example, according to a survey done by
the New York Times, it revealed that when students had to choose their
important decision, they went to teacher’s office in order to ask for advice.
This indicated that 90 percent of students chose their major and job through
deep consulting with teachers. This showed that teachers have a big influence
on student’s future plan. In this regard, teachers have a positive effect on their
students.
To
sum up, it is my belief that students more influenced by teacher rather than
friends. As stated, teachers convey knowledge and thought to their students and
students respect their teacher and depend on. Therefore, teachers have to try
to teach and deal with better for their students. |