The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Teaching is the process of inculcating good habits and eliminating good ones. Life is a series of actions that are both positive and negative and the process of learning involves removing the negative ones as we move forward. The prompt asserts that the best way to teach is to praise good actions and ignore negative ones. I agree that positive actions must be praised, however, I strongly disagree that negative actions must be ignored. I support my stand with the following major reasons.
The primary reason why negative actions must not be ignored is because of the fact that a child may not necessarily know what a negative action is and what it means. A child picks up habits and actions from its surroundings and it does not know whether they are good or bad. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the teacher, may it be in school or at home, who have to ensure that a child learns about what constitutes a good action. For instance, a child may notice certain people throwing litter on the road and it may start doing the same. It does not know that this is a negative action, and must not be done. Thus, a parent or a teacher must explain to the student what the action means so that the child will not do it again.
Pointing out negative actions and correcting them also results in strengthening of conscience of the child. If a negative action is not reprimanded, then the person committing the action is likely to belive that his actions do not have any negative consequences. Though people may argue that their conscience will prick them and stop them from doing it, I believe that only when negative actions are pointed out, it assigns the people with a sense of responsibility for their actions. This will result in strenghtening of their conscience and will prevent them from doing so in the future.
Extending on the previous point, if negative actions are ignored, then the tendency to repeat them arises. For instance, if a child is cheating in his/her exam and no action is taken if spotted, it is only likely that it will commit the act again, since there was no negative effect of their action. Only if it is pointed out, it will instill a sense of fear in the child that a bad action will have bad effects for him/her. Also, when negative actions are reprimanded, then we essentially target the root and eliminate the problem in its nascent stages. This will surely improve the holistic development of the child.
Learning is largely a feedback mechanism. When good acts are praised, it gives a sense of accomplishment and an incentive to keep performing good acts. When positive acts are praised, then it motivates them to do better. Similarly, when negative actions are reprimanded, then it provides them with incentives to not repeat the act. Therefore, a child must not only be appreciated for the right behaviour, but also be told about the places where he/she is going wrong. This is the essence of teaching
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_THE_FACT_THAT[1]
Message: This phrase is redundant. Use simply 'because'.
Suggestion: because
...negative actions must not be ignored is because of the fact that a child may not necessarily know what a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, similarly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 33.0505617978 185% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2437.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 516.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72286821705 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61063919817 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.422480620155 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 758.7 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 43.9827998926 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.7307692308 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8461538462 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.30769230769 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32741391766 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10254771887 0.0831039109588 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.133314011727 0.0758088955206 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199918064449 0.150359130593 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.15088710372 0.0667264976115 226% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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