Education is often said to be the key in moulding the future of a nation. A nation's leaders of tomorrow are more often than not groomed in home soil - a product of today's educational policies. In most developed countries, the nature of a nation's curricula is always a hot and passionate topic, mostly because virtually everyone have been through the system and have first-hand accounts to relate to. In the last century, national schooling in most countries has been confined to a unilateral system, where all students are taught the same things, take the same subjects and are evaluated based on the same skills, mostly on the humanities and sciences.
Education in the 21st century, however, is beginning to change. Some countries have deviated from this model and have developed a more holistic approach: offering different currciulas which students can either choose based on interest or ability. In this day and age of an increasingly diverse, volatile global landscape, it is insufficient to just have a 'one size fits all' approach in education. Education is not just a means to become a learned, knowledgeable individual, it is also a tool for survivability. Structural changes and blips in economy are becoming more frequent than in the past, people need to learn early to adapt fast enough. By committing a whole generation of students to a single curricula and neglecting the importance of having a diversified workforce is tantamount to a national economic suicide. China, for example, has a unilateral national curriculum, where
Identifying a child's strengths and passion early and encouraging it is also important in the character building and self-esteem. Many students who are unable to show their talents through paper exams suffer in these systems. Students who have a flair in a specific skill and talent that is not part of the curricula like the arts and sports often sidelined in such systems, their potential untapped and talents wasted. Instead of focusing on what they ae good at, the system instead forces them to spend more effort - even much more than the average student, to fit and conform into the system. These childhood experiences of trying yet failing repeatedly can be traumatic. Not only do their untapped talents come to waste, many would also suffer a big blow to their self confidence which follows well in adulthood.
Many proponents of a unified curricula feel that a unilateral system fosters cohesion amongst students and is a level playing field for all, since regardless of wealth, race or religion, everyone receives the same education. No student in the system would be taught differently or given special training for additional skills. Every student have equal opportunities in learning. This, however, I feel is a misconception. Instead of leveling the playing field, a unilateral curriculum is very unfair, skewed towards those who have the natural ability in performing well in ways deemed by the system. Every child is born different in terms of ability, physical or mental. What matters most is performing poorly in a small set of skills is not reflective and indicative of a person's ability and value in society as a whole.
Education systems should thrive in tapping the potential and talents of the young, and at the same time, encourage character building and inculcating moral values. Having a unified curriculum discourages that. Many talented sportsmen, dancers, artists, musicians all have specialised training from young. Ballerinas in particular, are trained from a very young age. Take Misty Copeland, the Principal ballerina from the American Ballet Company, for example. If she was not pluck off from school at 10 to be home-schooled, so she has more time to hone her techniques, she would never have become what she is today.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'well', 'for example', 'i feel', 'in particular']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.229317851959 0.240241500013 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.159651669086 0.157235817809 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.120464441219 0.0880659088768 137% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0624092888244 0.0497285424764 125% => OK
Pronouns: 0.021770682148 0.0444667217837 49% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10740203193 0.12292977631 87% => OK
Participles: 0.055152394775 0.0406280797675 136% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.85883780616 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261248185776 0.030933414821 84% => OK
Particles: 0.00145137880987 0.0016655270985 87% => OK
Determiners: 0.10595065312 0.0997080785238 106% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00870827285922 0.0249443105267 35% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0159651669086 0.0148568991511 107% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3803.0 2732.02544248 139% => OK
No of words: 621.0 452.878318584 137% => OK
Chars per words: 6.12399355878 6.0361032391 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.991980728 4.58838876751 109% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.400966183575 0.366273622748 109% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.325281803543 0.280924506359 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.236714975845 0.200843997647 118% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.14653784219 0.132149295362 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85883780616 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 333.0 219.290929204 152% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536231884058 0.48968727796 110% => OK
Word variations: 69.5376975812 55.4138127331 125% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4137931034 23.380412469 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2725299535 59.4972553346 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.137931034 141.124799967 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4137931034 23.380412469 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.310344827586 0.674092028746 46% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 53.9419734577 51.4728631049 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.60714285714 1.64882698954 97% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233445258819 0.391690518653 60% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0836070108964 0.123202303941 68% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0688168176026 0.077325440228 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.425797607172 0.547984918172 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147004432645 0.149214159877 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0767583569108 0.161403998019 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576096274084 0.0892212321368 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.35027038792 0.385218514788 91% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0709592887132 0.0692045440612 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162472277057 0.275328986314 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0401326539619 0.0653680567796 61% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88274336283 225% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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