The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Teaching is part and parcel of life. It imparts crucial knowledge and life lessons to individuals and is the foundation of our society. There is no single rule in teaching, since it depends heavily on the individual, the environment and the teacher themselves. It is crucial for educators to reinforce any positive actions but also equally crucial for them to not overlook any negative ones. Hence, I disagree with the statement to a large extent as I believe both positive and negative actions need to be taken into account when educating an individual.
First and foremost, I do agree that praising positive actions is one of the best ways to teach. Praising positive actions help to provide reinforcements in an individual toward doing the right things. For example, a student who did well in a test should be praised by his/her teacher. Being recognized by the teacher provides a sense of achievement for the student and this leads to increased motivation for the student to continue and strive for better results. As humans, it is in our instinct to strive for praises. It makes us feel good about ourselves and help to build our confidence. However, focusing too much on praises may cause the individual to become arrogant. Hence, we should praise positive actions, but not excessively such that it results in a negative impact.
Furthermore, I do agree that in some instances, it is more appropriate to ignore the flaws or mistakes that the individual has made. For example, if a student made a minor mistake during a play or a performance which did not cause any disruptions, it should be overlooked and ignored. If we were to pry into that minor mistake after the performance, it may only ruin their confidence and reduce their self-worth. Children when young should be provided with more positive reinforcements and less on the criticism.
However, I believe that ignoring negative actions completely will definitely have detrimental effects to the individual. Overlooking any mistakes or flaws may cause the individual to become unaware of the mistakes they made. This is especially crucial when dealing with serious issues, from mindlessly simple examples such as scolding vulgarities to intricate instances such as breaking the law. For example, if a student got into a fight in school, they should be reprimanded and dealt with severely. Forgoing instances as such will only cause the student to have the mindset that “I am not in trouble, it means fighting is not wrong”. Since people normally correlate the things that they are being reprimanded for to be wrong, ignoring the mistakes will cause them to develop a wrong mindset.
In conclusion, I believe the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and at times, depending on the situation, ignore negative ones. Sometimes it is necessary to focus on the negative actions if its too severe to be overlooked. This way of teaching ensures that the student or child gets more positive reinforcements which will help them to build up their confidence, self-worth and allow them to grow up with high decorum.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, so, well, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2586.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 514.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03112840467 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84898780578 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472762645914 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 821.7 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 6.24550561798 288% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.3919745843 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4615384615 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7692307692 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.11538461538 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317474384378 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0950623958173 0.0831039109588 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.147855390766 0.0758088955206 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197302098206 0.150359130593 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.148944288842 0.0667264976115 223% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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