“I’m still learning.” – Michelangelo. Learning is a lifelong process – learning never stops for a human who are intellectual beings and have a thirst for knowledge. Learning is usually the first step to any process: be it walking or making a rocket which makes it possible for mankind to step on the moon. The prompt suggests that we learn faster from someone who shares similar ideals of our own rather than a someone who has different views. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with this topic which trivializes the learning aspect for three critical reasons.
To begin, learning is not dependent on whether you have similar ideals to someone. “Keep your friend closer and your enemies closer.” This is a very popular quote which tells us that we could learn much more from enemies rather than from the people who share our ideals with. For example, an army general after resounding defeat at the hand of his enemy decides to change his formation for the next battle. However, if he’s learning the same lesson from his teacher, he may not take the opinion so seriously. Instead, what he learns faster is the defeat. This example though very specific is very relevant to us too. We learn faster from mistakes rather than when we are just spoon fed some morale values.
Moreover, it is quite possible that the person whose views are similar to you is already on the wrong track. Not only will you be learning wrong things or might make the same mistakes yourself. For instance, a teenager idolizes a popstar – a person the teenager wants to become when he grows up. The teen researches everything about that person’s habit from what the popstar eats to what he/she wears. It is possible that the popstar has bad eating habits and he/she does not actually care about his health because they have already reached illustriousness. Now, not only the influence of learning from someone with similar views will cause the demise of the teenager but he/she will keep going down the wrong path until and unless someone from the opposite view point, points it out to the teen. This shows us that we can go down the part of decline if we blindly learn from the people who just share the same views with us.
Finally, sometimes a different perspective is important. If we keep looking at something from the same angle will make sterile and rigid in their manner of thinking. Let’s observe the following illustration: would you learn faster if you find the content you are learning is almost similar to what you know – because you share similar views – or from a person who is talking about a totally different content. The most picked choice will be the latter one. This is because the difference creates a void of intelligence which can be filled much more easily rather than perfecting a bridge which is almost perfect to the point you have to find small blemishes to even progress a little. This illustration shows that it’s not the person who shares the closest view can provide you with the most learning knowledge.
Obviously, sometimes it possible one learns faster from a person who shares similar views. The best example for this will be the teacher – student relation for so many different art forms: music, sports, etc. The similar view point is helpful here because the student is willing to learn the craft from his/her teacher.
To conclude, learning is a process which cannot be confined by saying that we can learn much more from someone who shares similar views as shown by the above discussion. One should aim to learn from anything one can find in the world, be it an ant or a lion and never stop learning.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'a' or 'someone'?
Suggestion: a; someone
...s similar ideals of our own rather than a someone who has different views. In my opinion,...
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Line 5, column 140, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to wrong'
Suggestion: to wrong
...ng track. Not only will you be learning wrong things or might make the same mistakes ...
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Line 9, column 164, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...e the teacher – student relation for so many different art forms: music, sports, etc. The simi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, for example, for instance, talking about, you know, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 70.0 33.0505617978 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3050.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 635.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8031496063 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01988110783 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46454227554 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458267716535 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 910.8 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5739796224 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.666666667 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1666666667 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316435990387 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0862917280954 0.0831039109588 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756662845876 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187737621139 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615630547275 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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