Claim: We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from those whose views contradict our own.
Reason: Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.
A person is literati only when he can logically reason for both sides of a topic. The prompt claims that a person can learn only from people who share his ideas and not through those who contradict his own. I strongly disagree with this position because of the following reasons.
Firstly, An individual learns a concept thoroughly through syllogism. He can truly grasp a concept only when he questions it's position, know its benefits as well as adverse effects. For instance, a person supporting urbanization needs to be aware of its consequences in order to keep his position in check. He should be aware of the fact that global warming is an increasing worry for the world and sufficient oxygen producing trees are necessary for any living organism to sustain life on earth. With this knowledge, he can make his proposition better by acknowledging the opposite side as well. A person sounds more pursuing when he is ready to recognize his adversary and doesn't look like a bigot.
Furthermore, discussing the topic with people who don't look eye to eye helps in keeping one's idea in check. If a person is only surrounded by people who have the same motivation they can digress from the primary goal they set out with. For example, when considering the case of Donald Trump his primary objective when he set out to become president was to deport all illegal immigrant but with his toady supporter and complaisant administration he digressed from taking important decisions in immigration policy or making his border strong rather he was pursuing the government in making a wall across the America-Mexico border which would have cost billions of dollars thus making USA's economy weak. It was only because of a healthy opposition namely, the Democrats because of whom he was made aware of how impractical his plan was. The above example illustrates why having a healthy adversary is important as it can help who understand a concept better.
However, I don't support diatribe between opposition as it leads to nothing. The Indian Parliament or "Lok Sabha" is notoriously known for this. Unnecessary brawl only wastes the governments time and money. Which leads to stress and inhibit learning.
Concluding, it is necessary to have people who oppose your position close by. As people who own the same views help in learning faster, it is the people who oppose your position that help in understanding the depth of the concept.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: doesn't
...is ready to recognize his adversary and doesnt look like a bigot. Furthermore, disc...
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Suggestion: don't
...e, discussing the topic with people who dont look eye to eye helps in keeping ones i...
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...o dont look eye to eye helps in keeping ones idea in check. If a person is only surr...
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Line 5, column 109, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ye helps in keeping ones idea in check. If a person is only surrounded by people w...
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Suggestion: don't
...rstand a concept better. However, I dont support diatribe between opposition as ...
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Line 7, column 189, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...this. Unnecessary brawl only wastes the governments time and money. Which leads to stress a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, so, thus, well, as to, for example, for instance, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2036.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 408.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99019607843 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77727984772 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553921568627 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 635.4 704.065955056 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.6979579687 60.3974514979 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.8 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.65 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.135295595689 0.243740707755 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459144978251 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0600173970455 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0880369500205 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.05910578906 0.0667264976115 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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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.