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Some people thinks that students are influenced more by their teachers than by their peers because teachers can give them practical advices. However, I disagree with this statement for two reasons. One reason is that students communicate with their peers more than with their teachers. Another is that students trust each other more than their teachers.
To begin with, the communication between students allows them to have much influence on each other. This is due to the fact that students are always in keeping in touch with their peers through e-mail, text messages, or telephones. Meanwhile, they do not have much communication but the formal communication in school with their teachers. For example, my friends and I are in keeping in contact through text messages. In fact, we send text messages to each other numerous times every day. Because we exchange much information about many topics such as good academies, hot places, and new musics, I depend a lot on the information which my friends give. This shows that students influence each other greatly through frequent communication.
On top of that, trusting friends plays a significant role in influencing each other. This is because students have accumulated similar experience in their school lives and they can give friends practical advices. On the other hand, it is hard for teachers to understand students’ problems totally because they are older than students and do not know exactly what students need. According to a study conducted by the Ministry of Education of Korea, students who believe in their peers is about 70% and students who believe in their teachers is only about 20%. Moreover, that study shows that students follow more easily other students’ suggestion than teachers’ suggestion, because students believe their peers more.
To sum up, students communicate with each other more frequently than with their teachers and students believe each other more than their teachers. In this regard, I agree with the statement that friends have a greater influence on students than teachers do. |