Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills,
Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
It sometimes argued that education, from elementary schools to colleges, tend to be more focused on the improvement of their students` knowledge than on the practice of other abilities that they will require in order to thrive in the working life. This essay agrees to a certain extent that practical abilities are essential to be successful at work. This essay will first discuss how much theoretical lessons are given now in comparison to practical ones, secondly show that practical activities provide us with some abilities that are really valued in the professional path, followed by a reasoned conclusion.
Few people would contest that nowadays too much time is dedicated to theory. If we look at the syllabus of whatever course, we will notice that more than 80% of the time is employed to give lectures whilst only 20% is used to develop practical skills. It comes without doubt that knowledge is really necessary to climb the career ladder but without soft skills it would be almost impossible to get a decision-making job.
Practical lessons, such as workshops or apprenticeships, could provide us with some useful abilities. Education should promote creativity and innovation, unleash imagination or foster interpersonal-skills. Not only must people know what to say, but they also should know how to say it. For instance, some of the most thriving entrepreneurs of the 21th century, like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg which are the founders of Apple and Facebook respectively, did not even finish their tertiary education, but due to the fact they had enough knowledge and impressive soft skills, they flourish to convince people about what they were saying and their firms enjoyed an overnight success.
In conclusion, it is my firm belief that practical skills play a key role in our development owing to the fact that we will always deal with people but we should also continue being concerned about enlarge our knowledge to gain confidence with a view to finding a worthwhile job.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, really, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1680.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 328.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12195121951 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94920310071 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600609756098 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 98.6516536117 49.4020404114 200% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.727272727 106.682146367 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8181818182 20.7667163134 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.18181818182 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172460368583 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630501840332 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0325629557397 0.0667982634062 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0930890071057 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318729667232 0.056905535591 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 50.2224549098 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 9.78957915832 215% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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