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

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

Teaching plays a great role in shaping an individual's whole outlook. The way in which is the teaching is being imparted is also a crucial factor. The teacher, who is responsible for this task can handle this in different ways, but the baseline is almost same for everyone. The prompts speaks that praising people for positive actions and ignoring their negative moves is the best way to teach. I, however, strongly disagree with this statement. In the following two paragraphs, it has been explained why.

First of all, in addition to praising the positive motions by students, their negative actions also need to be addressed in the appropriate manner because people can learn a great deal from their mistakes. If a person takes a lesson from a past event that he did mistakenly, that learning sticks to his memory for a longer period of time. Of course, no human is perfect and we learn through a trial and error process. Without the criticisms about the negative actions, it is harder for a person to grow as a real human being. For example, let us assume that a student always copies in his exams. This is obviously not a noble action. But by copying, he gets good marks in every exam. In this case, if the teacher praises him for getting good marks and completely ignores the fact that the student got a good mark by copying, then this is going to create a false sense of appreciation for the student. Because his teacher failed to do the right thing, the student would not learn from a grave mistake. If the opposite would have happened and the teacher talked to him about this issue, make him understand why this is wrong, then may be the student would know that what he did was not very ethical. This would perhaps prevent him from doing such a thing in future. So, this example illustrates that criticism in teaching is also important, not just applauding for fake success.

Secondly, if the negative actions are constantly undermined or overlooked, this may leave an expression that perhaps doing such things is may be okay regardless of the magnitude. This will ultimately create a completely wrong sense of what should and should not be done, which can break the whole moral system. For example, in the case of the student in the previous paragraph, if the teacher constantly ignored him, even though knowingly, it would make the student think that he is doing nothing wrong. He may do it constantly for all his life. Because of bad teaching practice, a student would conduct an unethical thing his whole life. Another example can be taken that if someone has a habit of shoplifting and the people around the person know about this and yet they let it slide, then the person would not think that he/she is doing anything wrong. And this not-stopping from doing such things can lead to a life-long affiliation to that negative motion. So, this proves that if the negative actions are not addressed accordingly, it may leave a permanent mark.

In conclusion, the issue of teaching morality is very sensitive. It is about shaping a mind and failure to do so can lead to a disaster. Praising good actions is necessary, sure, but criticizing negative ones are also equally important as well. A good balance between these two factors may help produce a good result.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 40, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an individual' or simply 'individuals'?
Suggestion: an individual; individuals
Teaching plays a great role in shaping an individuals whole outlook. The way in which is the ...
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Line 1, column 274, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e baseline is almost same for everyone. The prompts speaks that praising people for...
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Line 1, column 286, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'speak'.
Suggestion: speak
...s almost same for everyone. The prompts speaks that praising people for positive actio...
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Line 5, column 324, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...rning sticks to his memory for a longer period of time. Of course, no human is perfect and we ...
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Line 5, column 1019, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had happened'?
Suggestion: had happened
...n from a grave mistake. If the opposite would have happened and the teacher talked to him about thi...
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Line 5, column 1255, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...aps prevent him from doing such a thing in future. So, this example illustrates that crit...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, in addition, in conclusion, of course, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2724.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 572.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76223776224 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52420128588 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465034965035 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 824.4 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.1190382276 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.8 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0666666667 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 5.13820224719 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.188644228193 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579926226784 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10713469421 0.0758088955206 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148667233092 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0865064721673 0.0667264976115 130% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 48.8420337079 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 12.1743820225 68% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => 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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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.