Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.

A child learns whatever is taught to him by either his parents or his teachers. The knowledge being imparted to a child conforms to the facts and figures which have already been established. It is seldom seen that children are given the time or the space to explore their inner selves and free their minds. This is because the pressure of doing well in school in order to earn high grades is so much that children often have no option but to stick to their school books. When the same children grow up into adults and they are well settled in their careers, the formal education imparted to them plays on their minds all the time and they are unable to think outside the realms of formal education. Therefore, formal education that has been acquired over a period of time succeeds in restraining our minds and spirits instead of setting them free.

The importance of learning in a formal classroom environment has assumed a great significance in the modern world because the grades that you get in your high school or college can determine how your future will shape up. Children do not have the freedom to learn aspects that interest them as they are under constant pressure from their parents to get good grades in school. Moreover, the children themselves are conscious of the performance of their peers in school and so they try their best to keep in step with their friends who may be doing better than them. The fear of failing to score the passing grade makes them concentrate on their studies.

Even if students are able to secure good grades in school, the story does not end there. After completing high school, there is stiff competition for securing admissions to reputed professional courses and only a few students are able to join a program of study of their choice. This is because there are various standardized tests which test your competence in the field in which you wish to carry out your higher studies. If you want to succeed in a career of your choice, then it is essential for you to earn degrees that endorse your skills in the fields related to your career.

Once you are settled in a career of your choice, you are again limited to utilizing the information gained from your formal education because it is this knowledge that will help you rise in the hierarchy of your career. Therefore, it is evident that the life of an individual constantly revolves around his formal education. A person's thinking ability is largely influenced by the formal education that he has received and this education restrains him from thinking otherwise, unless he does so by risking his career and a successful future. A person will have to make a substantial effort to tear himself away from the norms of formal education if he wants to free his mind. The rewards for doing well in your formal education are manifold and these rewards deprive people of the motivation to set their minds free. The end result is that people do not have the incentive to set their minds free as their minds are restrained by the formal education that has been imparted to them.

In view of the above, it is evident that formal education assumes immense importance in the early years of life. The pressure exerted by the importance of formal education is such that there is little or no time left for anyone to allow their minds to be free and to think of something outside the realms of formal education.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 758, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...education that has been acquired over a period of time succeeds in restraining our minds and s...
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Line 10, column 326, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'A person' or simply 'persons'?
Suggestion: A person; Persons
...y revolves around his formal education. A persons thinking ability is largely influenced ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'well']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.208860759494 0.240241500013 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.191455696203 0.157235817809 122% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0791139240506 0.0880659088768 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0395569620253 0.0497285424764 80% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0965189873418 0.0444667217837 217% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.134493670886 0.12292977631 109% => OK
Participles: 0.0553797468354 0.0406280797675 136% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.43022118335 2.79330140395 87% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0474683544304 0.030933414821 153% => OK
Particles: 0.00474683544304 0.0016655270985 285% => OK
Determiners: 0.0886075949367 0.0997080785238 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00791139240506 0.0249443105267 32% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0174050632911 0.0148568991511 117% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3414.0 2732.02544248 125% => OK
No of words: 600.0 452.878318584 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94923200384 4.58838876751 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.32 0.366273622748 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.226666666667 0.280924506359 81% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.136666666667 0.200843997647 68% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0883333333333 0.132149295362 67% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43022118335 2.79330140395 87% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 219.290929204 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44 0.48968727796 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.9778135978 55.4138127331 96% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 27.2727272727 23.380412469 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2408579305 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.181818182 141.124799967 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2727272727 23.380412469 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.363636363636 0.674092028746 54% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 49.9393939394 51.4728631049 97% => OK
Elegance: 1.21739130435 1.64882698954 74% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234741431954 0.391690518653 60% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.164199758827 0.123202303941 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0991625864849 0.077325440228 128% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.570957312626 0.547984918172 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.127159851266 0.149214159877 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108488506486 0.161403998019 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735577936894 0.0892212321368 82% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.477852693861 0.385218514788 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0724650889559 0.0692045440612 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166587686526 0.275328986314 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718083331208 0.0653680567796 110% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.4325221239 163% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 17.0 7.22455752212 235% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.5995575221 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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