托福作文：同学比父母影响更大

　　Topic66：你是否同意，同学比父母对孩子影响更大？

　　Topic 66 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child's success in school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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　　Topic: 66

　　I strongly agree that classmates are more influential to a child's success in school than parents. This I support with the following reasons.

　　A child spends so much time with his classmates in school. They study together, play together, and write exams together. Psychologists agree that during their first years in school, children are more influenced by their companies during their emotional and mental growth. As a result, classmates are whom a kid contact most in school and will therefore have much impact on his achievements in school.

　　In addition, a child has nothing to hide with his classmates in terms of academic performance. For instance, a child who does a bad job in math exam will be revealed on his grades; a child who wins the first prize in oral debate contest will be rewarded before the whole group of students. So his classmates know both his good and bad sides of his performance in school. However, a child will conceal something to his parents while describing his conduct in school--often limit in those

　　good points. From this, we can easily conclude that only those who understand more about a child can exert more influence on him.

　　Finally, classmates are of similar age with a child. They share so much interest in common. So a child is more sentimentally attracted by his classmates’ activities. If he is in a group of children who are interested in innovations, he will more likely to think of inventing something all day. So classmates are very helpful in his success in school.

　　From the above discussed, I agree that classmates will influence a child more in his school success because they have more time together, they understand him better than his parents, and they have so much common interest together.

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　　Although students stay with their classmates all time in school, parents are a more important influence on a child’s success. I disagree with the statement that classmates are a more important influence on a child’s success in school, because of the reasons as follows.

　　First of all, parents are the people who understand their own children best. They know the children’s good sides and bad habits. They can correct the children’s bad idea and make them give rid of the bad habits. So children can found a good base to get success in school. But classmates can not do these work.

　　The other reason is that parents have experiences on a lot of matters. If children have problems, parents can give them their experiences to help them solve problems. If parents have no similar experiences, they still can give their children some advice and make them avoid the wrong directions. Classmates can also give children some help, but they do not have more experiences than parents. So their influence is less than that of parents.

　　Parents also have other important influence on their children’s success in school. Parents may analyze something in different ways and have different opinions from children. Classmates also can have different opinions on one thing, but they are at the same conditions with each other, their opinions may be similar or narrow. Children can learn more comprehensive knowledge about on thing from their parents.

　　So, based on the above discussion, I think it is clear that parents are a more important influence than classmates on a child’s success in school.