Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends.
We live in a world where communication is one of the most effective tools of influence. A person belongs to several social groups at the same time - family, friends, school/college, etc. Some people claim that the biggest impact is experienced during school and college years when a person is a student and communicates with teachers. Others believe that in student years a person is mostly affected by his/her friends. I strongly support the first group's opinion. The following arguments will explain my point of view.
To start with, since childhood, we are being told to obey older people. This rule is based on the very old system of values that implies that the elders have more authority as they are more experienced. This idea creates the behavioral pattern, where a person is very likely to be affected by what elders are saying. This pattern works with students and teachers, too. Teachers are people who have authority over the younger generation of students. Therefore, it is logical that students feel that a word said by a teacher has its weight. From this perspective, the student sees their friend as someone who is equal, who have the same amount of experience. Therefore, the friend's opinion is unlikely to influence a student in the way the teacher's opinion does.
Another important aspect is that teachers are people from whom we learn. Their primary function is to impart us knowledge and teach us skills that will be essential in our life. This type of relationship between a student and a teacher creates a foundation where the former gets inevitably influenced by the latter. In a sense, the very teaching itself can already be seen as an influence. If we think about it, a student believes every word the teacher says - whether it is a simple fact that the Earth orbits the Sun or a complicated theory from physics.
As far as friendship is concerned, most people become friends because they share the same hobbies, live next to each other or study/work at the same place. These grounds do not necessarily imply that friends would be influencing each other in some way. They may just enjoy spending time together.
As has been noted, in student years people actively communicate with both their friends and teachers. But in terms of influence, the role of a teacher is far more serious. For a student, a teacher is a role model, a person who deserves respect due to his/her age, experience, and status.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 450, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'groups'' or 'group's'?
Suggestion: groups'; group's
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Line 3, column 318, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... be affected by what elders are saying. This pattern works with students and teacher...
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Line 3, column 674, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'friends'' or 'friend's'?
Suggestion: friends'; friend's
...me amount of experience. Therefore, the friends opinion is unlikely to influence a stud...
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Line 3, column 740, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...y to influence a student in the way the teachers opinion does. Another important aspe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, therefore, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2026.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 415.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88192771084 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6525556986 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549397590361 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 615.6 618.680645161 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.0912919059 48.9658058833 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.04 100.406767564 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.96 5.45110844103 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230886285233 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0591435420066 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0436359577185 0.0737576698707 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12284107764 0.150856017488 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561913118632 0.0645574589148 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 11.7677419355 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.