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As a student, teachers really have a huge influence on us. They taught us knowledge and guide us to explore the unknown areas. Good teachers may even set examples for us and our life may be changed by them. However as far as I am concerned, friends are much more important than teachers through one’s life.
First of all, we usually spend more time with friends, which may in turn result in the deeper affection. While we interact with teachers mainly in classrooms, friends accompany us the whole day. We go to school with friends; we discuss question with friends in class; we play games with friends after class; we go back home and do the homework together with friends; We go trip with friends at weekends. Almost in every minute of our life, we interact with our friends. Through so much time spent with friends, we learn from each other, help each other, understand each other and finally, we get to influence each other.
Furthermore, friends can influence every aspect of our life while teachers mainly focus on study. You may turn to a teacher if you have a math problem. However, when you encounter many other problems, for instance, you fall in love with a girl and you want to count a girl. What would you do? I am sure that you will tell your friends about that and ask him or her to give you the suggestion. Or, I am sure that most of you have complained something about the teachers or parents together with your friends. Friends are always the ones who are at the same age and they always face the similar choices as us. They are most likely the ones that can understand the difficulties and troubles we face and we tend to give a complete trust to them. Therefore, their remarks and choices usually have a tremendous influence on us.
In addition, while teachers teach us for a certain period of time, good friends can keep us company for a lifelong time. Now, we are students, we discuss our math problems and determine what universities to take. Then, when we leave college, we wonder which job to take. Then, when we grow older, we discuss which partner to marry and how to bring up our children. We can always play together when we have time; we help each other when friends are in trouble; we share our happiness and sorrow with friends. Friends accompany us for a life time and we influence each other for a life time.
In the final analysis, I hold the point of view that friends have more influence since friends spend much more time with us and they are always the ones who understand us better and good friendship can last all one’s life. Though teachers are very important in the growth of a child, friends exert much more influence throughout one’s life.
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