Influence by classmates

The advent of 21st century has witnessed profound changes in social, educational, technological arenas. The comparison of the influence on a child’s success between the classmates and parents has brought to popular concerns. There is a fierce controversy on the issue. People from all walks of life can hardly reach an absolute conformity. For my part, my view will identical with the former. My analysis will be well grounded by the following sound reasons.

First and foremost, no one can fail to take into account the fact that classmates virtually have common psychology and they can communicate with each other better than with their parents. Generally speaking, parents focus much attention on their children scores in China. Only under certain situations such as children getting a high score will parents be satisfied with them. Nevertheless, they will shout and punish their children rigorously. On the contrary, the classmates always consider each other in terms of friendship. They usually consider problems from their friends’ angle and will not upset or hurt their friends on account of they shared the same situations.

In addition, it is no denying the fact that the children always spend more time with their classmates than their parents which guarantees close contact with classmates. Due to the fact that they share most of their time together, they, definitely, can understand, sympathize and influence each other easier. A recent survey conducted by China Daily indicates that 72.3% Chinese students have mutual pressures, which stimulates identical understanding and tolerance. They attempt to study on basis of their teachers’ guidance and their parents’ wishes. Therefore their tasks are alike, to be good students.

To put all into one nutshell, all the evidences lead the strong support to my convincing conclusion that classmates play a significant role in the process of grow-up. Although occasionally parents have more influences than classmates, such as the children who live in remote areas where they nearly have no chance to study and contact with classmates, at most time, classmates are more important than parents in the process of success.