As the speaker claims, rather than assessing the students' grasp of the facts, educators should evaluate students’ ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate. However, for my perspective, I agree with the speaker with concession. The recommendation can be suitable only when students have grasped the facts already. And examples will be provided to shape my position.
In one sense, we do need to master the facts and know the essence of the things. Generally speaking, it is a cornerstone of education, which we can not resist. Ignoring the digestion of the facts or the theories, only ensuring the competence to illustrate the conceptions, ideas and trends may be perfunctory. It is just like a debating team which has not get the key topic expresses a lot of useless points without any foundations. Without theory basis, strategies and actions to explain the ideas is nothing but fantasy.
In another，just as speaker advised, the ability to explain the ideas and concepts do have merits to our study. In my opinion, instead of memorizing it mechanically explaining the facts by our own can be the best way to comprehend. A famous Chinese man, called Zhao Kuo, was very fond of reading books on military science. He could recite military texts fluently. When discussing warfare, he could spoke so clearly and logically in a comparable degree. However, since Zhao Kuo had no practical experience, he was defeated and lost his life in battle. It refer that the purpose of education is not let students recite the facts and the theories learned from the class, but using these knowledge to resolve problems and answer questions.
Additionally, when convincing other people, explain the ideas, trends and concepts which the facts illustrate briefly can be effective. As we all know, Einstein’s theory of relativity can be difficult to be grasped by the layman. Learning the facts between lines may be difficult and easy to get bored. But Einstein gives us a good example to better explain his theory. He once gave a famous parable: "if a man sat with a beauty for 1 hour, he will feel it seems to be just 1 minute; but if he sat on a hot stove for 1 minute, he will think it seemed to be more than 1 hour." Thus, the ability of learning is not how many the facts you have learned, but whether you have the ability to explain the core of the facts and can help more people understand.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 357, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'got', 'gotten'.
Suggestion: got; gotten
...just like a debating team which has not get the key topic expresses a lot of useles...
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Line 5, column 554, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'refers'?
Suggestion: refers
...efeated and lost his life in battle. It refer that the purpose of education is not le...
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Line 5, column 678, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this knowledge' or 'these knowledges'?
Suggestion: this knowledge; these knowledges
...ories learned from the class, but using these knowledge to resolve problems and answer question...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
briefly, but, however, if, may, so, thus, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2030.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 418.0 442.535393258 94% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85645933014 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81469065079 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535885167464 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 624.6 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.0759552664 60.3974514979 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.6666666667 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9047619048 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.61904761905 5.21951772744 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.307109181111 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773476209194 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101160345217 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183382717504 0.150359130593 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0874827832197 0.0667264976115 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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