The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones

In the given Issue prompt, the author avers that the best methodology to teach is to praise positive actions but at the same time ignore negative ones. The reasoning behind author stating this could be the emotional stress associated with chiding someone. However, one needs to consider the graveness of the negative action committed before deciding whether to admonish the student or ignore his actions.

Consider for instance a kid who has consistently performed well in studies but has a tendency to overreact and get into fights. Should this behavior be tolerated? Of course not. A person is defined by the behavioral qualities rather than the achievements. If a person has graduated from Ivy league schools but can’t work in a team, no company would like to hire him or nobody would like to work for him. Thus, one cannot ignore the negative actions while at the same time praise all positive ones as it would do more harm than good. It would instill a sense of superiority instead of humility.

Lance Armstrong – seven times consecutive winner of “Tour de France” was praised when he won the races. But later he was stripped of all his titles. Why? Because his involvement in a protracted doping scandal surfaced. Just because he had won those races, can his involvement in a doping scandal be ignored? No. This is because what he did was wrong and there is no denying that. Thus, it is necessary to take corrective actions if a grave crime is committed.

Conversely, on might argue that not all negative actions should deserve punishments. Some can be ignored. For instance, in India, on the occasion of International Yoga Day, the Prime Minister carried and used a handkerchief which had the Indian National Flag printed on it. At once all the opposition parties accused him of committing sacrilege. They demanded that the Prime Minister should be stripped of his esteemed office and be jailed for perpetrating such a petty crime. This of course is preposterous. Some things need to be ignored and not all negative actions should involve punitive actions.

In a nutshell, what is important to consider is the graveness of the negative action. The best way to teach is not to always praise good actions and ignore negative ones. One needs to analyze the negative actions and then decide whether the perpetrator of the negative action(crime) is worth to be reprimanded.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...ions should involve punitive actions. In a nutshell, what is important to cons...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'conversely', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'for instance', 'of course']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.205298013245 0.25644967241 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.198675496689 0.15541462614 128% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0706401766004 0.0836205057962 84% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0419426048565 0.0520304965353 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0397350993377 0.0272364105082 146% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.108167770419 0.125424944231 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0507726269316 0.0416121511921 122% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.73957096885 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0309050772627 0.026700313972 116% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.112582781457 0.113004496875 100% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0309050772627 0.0255425247493 121% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0132450331126 0.0127820249294 104% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2403.0 2731.13054187 88% => OK
No of words: 403.0 446.07635468 90% => OK
Chars per words: 5.96277915633 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.379652605459 0.378187486979 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.285359801489 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.193548387097 0.208842608468 93% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.109181141439 0.135150697306 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73957096885 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 207.018472906 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54094292804 0.469332199767 115% => OK
Word variations: 61.519754033 52.1807786196 118% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.039408867 140% => OK
Sentence length: 14.3928571429 23.2022227129 62% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5154544211 57.7814097925 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.8214285714 141.986410481 60% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.3928571429 23.2022227129 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.428571428571 0.724660767414 59% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 42.9288372917 51.9672348444 83% => OK
Elegance: 1.29921259843 1.8405768891 71% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.500624665474 0.441005458295 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0903614151908 0.135418324435 67% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.114857503891 0.0829849096947 138% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.421496335986 0.58762219726 72% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.201033493341 0.147661913831 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136571279044 0.193483328276 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.184940328002 0.0970749176394 191% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.254127999831 0.42659136922 60% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0879941232065 0.0774707102158 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.338811811485 0.312017818177 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.203269025495 0.0698173142475 291% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.87684729064 233% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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