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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take.
In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in
which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and
explain how these examples shape your position.
According to the statement above, the most effective way to teach is by praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones. In what follows I will reject this thesis: while it may be true that this method can successfully be applied to animals and babies, it can imply negative consequences when it comes to older people.
At first glance, the author’s position seems to be confirmed by our experience of training dogs. I was able to teach my dog to sit by offering it a biscuit. At the same time, I also ignored its barks and now he barks very rarely. Imagine if I had done the opposite. For example, suppose if I had not given my dog a biscuit: it could not have been able to discriminate what actions it should perform and, therefore, it should never have learned to sit at my signal. Moreover, if I had not ignored it when it barked, but perhaps I had shouted it, my dog would not have stopped barking: it perhaps would have been stressed or in a situation that required fight. Similar consideration also applies to babies: if we want to teach them to eat even if they do not want to, the best way is to try to play with them: by feeling happy, they will be less reluctant to eat. If they also carry out a wrong action, it is better to say nothing.
However, this methodology of teaching does not seem to be effective in school. If we praised students with a high grade because they studied, they would not learn the value of studying. They would just think that studying permits them to receive high grades: they would not think that study make our mind freer. In the same way, if we ignored their negative actions, they would feel justified to perform them: they may think that they are not morally wrong – otherwise, they would have been punished. The same results can be obtained in society. For example, if criminals did not go to prison, they could not understand the immorality of their actions.
Some people may ask why there is such a divergent treatment between animal/babies and older people. One of the main reasons can be ascribed to the presence of a complex mind: if older people did not have a complex mind, there would not be the necessity to learn the value of studying; also, they could not say to themselves that what they have done is morally acceptable because, otherwise, they would have received a punishment.
In conclusion, the author’s position seems to be true for animals and babies. However, praising positive actions and ignoring negative ones is not the best way to teach older people. The main responsible for this fact is the presence of a complex mind.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 229, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[3]
Message: The adverb 'rarely' is usually not used at the end of a sentence.
...ignored its barks and now he barks very rarely. Imagine if I had done the opposite. Fo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 62.0 33.0505617978 188% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2154.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 466.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62231759657 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54117848514 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463519313305 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 664.2 704.065955056 94% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.5611445742 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.571428571 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1904761905 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115489998528 0.243740707755 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486099411375 0.0831039109588 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0732049243512 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0965977267473 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0825633342549 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 48.8420337079 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.52 12.1639044944 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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