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Some people believe that teacher influences their student much more than student's classmate. This is because they believe student listens carefully teacher's advice and fix their behavior according to teacher's suggestion. However, I believe that students get influenced by their friends rather than their teacher. This is due to the fact that student often spends more time with friends and accepts friend's advice much more heavily than teacher's suggestion. To begin with, it is evitable for student to stick to their friend all day long. This is because they have same time schedule: taking classes, having meals, and even having free time together in the same place. By doing so, they will be influenced by their friends a lot and even become similar to them. For example, when I was in high school, I had to be in school for about 17 hours, from 7.30 in the morning to midnight. I had a friend and took the whole lessons , had lunch and dinner in the same classroom together. Since my friend came from the south part of Korea, she got strong accent. After having plenty of time with her, oneday at the end of semester I realized that I talked in her accent. On the top of that, it seems that students tend to take care of advice more from their friends than from teachers. That is because student let their friend know many secret of themselves, talking every detail they have. A study conducted by Seoul National University Education Engineering College, shows that 90% of students believes that their friend know about them more than their teacher does. And 87% among them answered that they took their friend's advice much more seriously since their friend knew the whole situation. In the contrast, in the research, only 10% of students thinks their teacher knows more about them compared to their friends, and among them just 15% of student believes their teacher's advice can be effective for them. To sum up, we can say most students are influenced by their friends because they spend majority of time and choose to listen their friend's suggestion. For these reasons, I agree with the statement that students are affected more by friends than by teachers.
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