Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
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.
In today’s day and age where knowledge and information is no longer confined to formal classes and libraries, one is not heavily dependent on the formal education set up like schools and colleges. The prompt suggest that formal education tends to restrain our mind and spirits; I mostly agree with the prompt and will elaborate my stand with three reasons.
Firstly, formal structure of education, which was laid centuries back, is not that relevant in present time, since the evolution of digital age, one has access to abundant information, available about any topic of interest. The whole concept of formal education is technically flawed as it is based on curriculum and the whole point of curriculum is to restrict the amount of knowledge one should get at a particular age or class. However, there is no restriction to human affinity to learn. For example, the great mathematician S. Ramanujan has no formal education whatsoever, but still his great eagerness and passion to learn mathematics allowed him to discover so much in that field, that many who were consider as great academicians of the time were baffled by his pure genius. He was able to make so much contribution because his mind is not limited or corrupted by the restrictions posed by the formal education setup. So if one find passion in learning something and becoming better at it, there is no necessity of formal education.
Secondly, the formal education curbs the mind ability to think freely and destroy the authentic creativity. This is evident from well documented research where adult and children are tested based on their cognitive thinking abilities, results shows that children can produce far more ideas than adult for a particular problem because there mind is not fixed to think in only few limited direction. For instance, the noble laureate John Nash did not attend any classes during his post doctorate at University of Princeton, in pursuit of completely original idea which will not achievable with the formal structure of education provided there. As a result he was successfully find the original idea and presented it with his 28 pages PhD thesis, later for which he was awarded the noble prize in economics. This shows that the great minds are ones that has complete freedom to learn in subjects in which they are interested in, rather than burdened by the fixated nature of formal education they get from schools and colleges.
Lastly, one can argue that without formal education how one can survive, as it leads to job. In today’s competitive world, a formal college or school degree is necessary to get a job. One cannot solely depend on one’s interest or passion; they also need to focus on those lucrative career options that make their living. And also not everyone realize their passion early and for them formal education is good way to realize in which field they are interested. So one cannot completely ignores the role of formal education in one’s development.
In conclusion, for some people formal education is necessary as they may be interested or satisfied in getting the good fruits that they can get by performing well in the restricted formal education set up and really doesn’t care about the freeness of mind or spirit. And for others, it might be a limiting as it restricts them to think and feel freely. So the role of formal education in one’s mind or spirit is subjective.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: found
... there. As a result he was successfully find the original idea and presented it with...
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Suggestion:
...ion they get from schools and colleges. Lastly, one can argue that without forma...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, really, second, secondly, so, still, then, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2879.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 573.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02443280977 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89258810929 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72841464449 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492146596859 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 917.1 704.065955056 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.4745519066 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.863636364 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0454545455 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.04545454545 5.21951772744 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192204195785 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641720108422 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0440835543159 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124282236595 0.150359130593 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383699787248 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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