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.
Education is the most powerful resource a human can imbibe. "Knowledge is a weapon. I plan to be formidably armed." Prompt suggests that formal education restricts our minds from free thinking. In my opinion, formal education does not restrict our minds from independent thinking for three reasons.
First of all, formal education professes the fundamentals of the subject. A person needs to understand the core values of a subject to think deeper and develop new theories of his own. For instance, a mathematician must know the fundamentals of mathematics to build a new theory that adheres to the precedented laws of mathematics and, of course, logic. Formal education, in any field, does not hinder free thinking whereas it accumulates a wealth of knowledge. It serves as a principle to new ideologies.
Secondly, formal education provides structure and methodology to free thinkers to create new theories. Every field of study has a method of practice. For instance, a chemistry student must follow the code of testing when investigating a chemical's property. It does not prevent a person from trying new experiments but it specifies how an operation must be conducted. Formal education provides a structure of how an experiment should be organized and methodology of how it should be conducted and does not hinder free thinking.
Lastly, formal education promotes free thinking by reasoning the logic of existing 'formal education' theories and provides direction for further advancement. For example, Alfred Marshall stated that the demand for goods is inversely proportional to its price. It was widely accepted and praised until many economists criticized for various reasons one of them being, the demand for certain basic goods will not change even if there is a change in the price. Hence we can say that due to the existing knowledge one possesses, one can refute or advance a theory based on logic.
Advocates of the prompt may assert that formal education hinders free thinking by superimposing the thoughts of early academicians. But it merely gives a fundamental thought to the students with which they can create their own theories. Every scientist, philosopher or economist who has developed significant theories (which has not been refuted and dismissed) in their field have an understanding of formal education. Therefore, in my opinion, formal education does not prevent free thinking instead it advocates free thinking.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, for example, for instance, of course, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2074.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 388.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34536082474 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02111111005 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.520618556701 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 643.5 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.7724374447 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.2727272727 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6363636364 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.174341972998 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525166282241 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0421871600368 0.0758088955206 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10194051116 0.150359130593 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0357288185465 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.45 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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