066 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.
During one’s whole life, a person will meet and live with a lot of people, such as parents, brothers, classmates, colleagues, and bosses. Some people hold the opinion that classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. Other people disagreed with that. As far as I am concerned, I strongly support the former statement because of two main reasons: interest and time.

Interest is the best teacher. Birds of a feather flock together. A young child is emulative and likes to compete with his classmates in all fields, from study to sport, entertainment to family, etc. If his classmates pay more attention to the skills to win some computer game, he will try his best and be good at it. If they focus on the sport ability, he probably will be stronger. When I was a child, my classmates appreciated the grade. In order to get more A, I studied very hard and successfully passed the college entrance examination in the later. But my little brother was an exacting student and finally failed to enter university, because his classmates liked to compete to climb mountains and trees.

The more time you lived with one, the more you were alike with that one. Staying with his family only at night, a student comes along with his classmates all the day. He will obviously be influenced more by his classmates than his parents. I lived in the school and only came home at summer vacation and winter vacation. In the rest of the year I all studied and played with my classmates. So they had influenced me more than my parents when I attended the school.

Although the child is guided to do things by his parents at home, they have less time to do so. And the child is more likely to do things appreciated by his classmates. So when a child goes to school, it is his classmates, not his parents, who affect him more.