Learning for learning's sake is an outdated concept. Today, education must serve an ulterior purpose and be directed towards clear goals
The author states that learning for learning's sake is an outdated concept and that today, education must serve an ulterior purpose and be directed towards clear goals. I disagree with this statement as I believe the primary purpose of education is to give people enough knowledge to find their footing in the world. The following points will elucidate my stance on the topic.
As mentioned above, I believe that the basic education for everyone should not be goal oriented. There need to be basic things that we learn to just learn them, not for the purpose of fulfilling some goal. And not only basic education, there are lots of things in life that we learn just because we are interested in it, not because we feel the necessity to learn them. The simplest example of this is our hobbies. While growing up and even now, we have cultivated numerous hobbies - things we like to do for recreational activities- that may have no impact on any of our other professional goals, but we do them just because we like it. We learned these hobbies not as a part of some ulterior goal, but just for our pleasure.
Moreover, it is very true that not all of us are crystal clear on our goals. Not all of us have figured out what we want to do in life. In such a case, when we have no definite goals, directing all of our education and resources on tentative goals will just prove to be futile. If we want to explore and we don't want to confine ourselves to a specific goal, then we cannot confine our education as well. Apart from this, if we are not clear on a specific goal, we cannot force ourselves to like the goals that are in front of us. We may end up working towards them but we may also end up unsatisfied as we didn't get to explore first and decide what we want to do.
Although I have to agree, that for some people, their goals in life are pretty clear and they have a good understanding of what they want to achieve. For such people goal oriented education is quite fruitful as they get to focus on the specific things that they want to learn and the things that they need in order to become industry ready and to be successful in their fields. I do agree that higher education needs to be a little goal oriented to facilitate the education of the students clear on their goals, but it should not be a compulsion for every student to have a goal. Primary education however should only focus on teaching the kids basics and giving them sufficient knowledge of all the fields so that they can make a well informed, conscious decision about what they want to learn further.
In conclusion, I agree that goal oriented education is important and can prove beneficial in some scenarios but it should not be a compulsion for everyone as some people may want to learn just for learning's sake only.
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Suggestion: don't
...be futile. If we want to explore and we dont want to confine ourselves to a specific...
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Suggestion: didn't
...ut we may also end up unsatisfied as we didnt get to explore first and decide what we...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'kids'' or 'kid's'?
Suggestion: kids'; kid's
...wever should only focus on teaching the kids basics and giving them sufficient knowl...
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to further'
Suggestion: to further
... decision about what they want to learn further. In conclusion, I agree that goal or...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, well, while, apart from, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2291.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 513.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.46588693957 5.05705443957 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42060330353 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.405458089669 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 726.3 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9793602983 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.55 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.65 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340057839063 0.243740707755 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127311508021 0.0831039109588 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.182393011607 0.0758088955206 241% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243390026858 0.150359130593 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.167885436761 0.0667264976115 252% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 48.8420337079 129% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.94 12.1639044944 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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