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

As the prompt suggests that neglecting bad demeanours and highlighting good deeds is the best way to teach someone is something that I don’t agree with to some extent and argue that although always pointing out mistakes in someone makes them bitter in some ways however if mistakes are corrected positively then it may change the whole scenario. Below mentioned are two reasons through which I support my stand.

First of all, scolding and reprimanding are strict and severe ways to prevent an unacceptable situation from happening again. For instance, when a child steals money for the first time and gets caught by her mother, it would be wrong for the mother to let this issue slide thinking he/she is just a child, it wouldn’t happen again, or I would scold them the next I catch them. In an Indian advertisement, it was beautifully shown how a mother in a very patriarchal family punishes her son by not serving him dinner. She was reproached by every member of the family for being cruel to a 10-year-old boy, who stole 10 rupees. Yet she was determined and in addition the head of the family, her father-in-law praised her for taking this step because he knew that she isn’t being just cruel but right. Just like any mother in the world is expected would have done, she also hadn’t had dinner that night. The above-mentioned example portrays that it’s not always easy to take such tough actions but one has to do it to stop something more terrible from happening. And hence lesson learned successfully!

As a very common philosophical question goes by “a glass is half empty or half full?”, it makes sense that it all depends on how one perceives something. In a Netflix series, for example, a teenage girl is shown as super intelligent, however, once she tries to cheat in an “Inter-School Extempore competition”, but fails to do so as the teacher already notices her peeking and hence changes the subject. Though, very perplexed at the beginning, she wins anyhow because she is an exceptional case. The teacher extols her in front of everyone. Then, the teacher brings her home and complains to her parents about her cheating in private. And her parents thank him for not making this issue public, or else her hard work to date would have gone in vain. Then the teacher enlightens her on how she is different from others, and others are also different from her in the fields that interest them, and also makes her believe that she is already best at everything, all she needs to do is trust herself. This example depicts that it isn’t always the case that scolding and insulting are the only options. Sometimes, one may be positive about it that some people may also learn through praises and a little scolding in private.

All in all, scolding and punishing, on one hand, is a tough way to teach someone, while praising and enthralling someone for good behaviour and actions, on the other hand, are smooth ways. Hence, Scolding and praising both make people grow as a whole.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, so, then, while, as to, for example, for instance, in addition, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 11.1786427146 224% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 28.8173652695 226% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2488.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 522.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7662835249 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61868635762 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 204.123752495 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536398467433 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 743.4 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.67365269461 478% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.9732025125 57.8364921388 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.4 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.9 5.70786347227 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125839659901 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363580084231 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520032173981 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.098373434 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499717596212 0.0628817314937 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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