The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and supporti

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

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Teaching and learning are the most important ways of improving and developing in various aspects of life. All humans need someone from whom they can learn different things, from literacy and other academic skills to moralities and positive and appropriate behaviors. There are, however, many controversies over the best ways of teaching among ordinary people as well as specialists, and some of them, including the author of the above statement, believe that the best way of teaching is to ignore the learners' negative actions and just praise their positive behaviors. Personally, I cannot completely agree with this notion, and in the following, I will explain my viewpoints about this issue in detail.
To begin with, frequent use of this policy may have harmful and deleterious effects on individuals' personal, occupational, academic and social life. When a negative behavior or action is ignored regularly and during a long period of time, it can take the form of habit and after a while, it becomes one of the person's usual behavior and method of confrontation. Eventually, unfavorable actions can cause various unpleasant consequences for individual him/herself and his/her surrounding people. For example, an employee who is not diligent enough in his work and makes egregious mistakes in the preparation of business contracts may cause serious damages to his company's reputation and capital. In addition, he may lose his job because of his negative habit which has formed during years of being neglected by his educators. His company managers also need to compensate for various similar losses regularly if they tend to ignore employees' negative actions. Thus, we cannot ignore any negative behavior or habit, especially those that are detrimental.
Another important point about this issue is that applying such a policy can prevent people from improving their personality, skills and knowledge. When we ignore the mistakes and flaws of an individual in a specific field, he cannot realize his foibles and cannot correct them and promote his skills and actions. Consider a student who is learning a foreign language and he constantly pronounces words incorrectly and applies wrong grammatical structures in his writing and speeches. If his teacher pays no attention to his obvious mistakes, he is not only unaware of them but also does not make any attempt to decrease his weaknesses and correct his misconceptions and misinterpretations. Therefore, educators should not disregard all kinds of negative behaviors and actions on the pretext of using the best way of teaching.
Even though paying no attention to incorrect behaviors that may be detrimental to many learners and individuals, there are some situations in which exploiting this policy is more beneficial than mentioning individuals' wrong behavior or attitude. Such situations include all settings when showing negative or incorrect behaviors is harmful neither for the person him/herself nor for others. In addition, in many situations, especially in social settings, mentioning these foibles and wrong actions may make people distressingly embarrassed and be emotionally and psychologically disturbing. Mistakes which people carry out in their personal affairs, wearing clothes, applying a tool, or spending their leisure time are among these unimportant mistakes which we should not be very stern about.
In conclusion, except for some specific situations in which mentioning an individual's negative behavior or action may result in embarrassment and is not actually necessary, I believe that ignoring negative actions can be significantly harmful and hinder the learners' progress and development in various aspects of life. Thus, teachers and educators should use the policy with great care and caution.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 224, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... is ignored regularly and during a long period of time, it can take the form of habit and afte...
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Line 5, column 72, 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
...specific situations in which mentioning an individuals negative behavior or action may result ...
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Line 5, column 259, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'learners'' or 'learner's'?
Suggestion: learners'; learner's
...be significantly harmful and hinder the learners progress and development in various asp...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as for, except for, for example, in addition, in conclusion, as well as, in my view, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 44.0 14.8657303371 296% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3200.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 584.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47945205479 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91590194646 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98947103057 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 1004.4 704.065955056 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.5633560877 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.454545455 118.986275619 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5454545455 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77272727273 5.21951772744 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178127580018 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534658516956 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471151034288 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110876690566 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0557637863365 0.0667264976115 84% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 14.1392134831 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 100.480337079 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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