A Nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter the college.

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A Nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter the college.

While I strongly believe that a certain level of education is necessary for each and every student, rather person, of a country, restricting the students to the same curriculum just might not be the best thing to do so. A student is most vulnerable and influential in adolescence. This is the time when they possibly learn about their interests and passions, which, without doubt, may vary according to one's capabilities or surroundings. But in that case, forcing all of them to follow the same curriculum not only presents danger of some of the students falling out of their interests, it also divests a nation of their probable future stars. I will explain about this in below examples.
Suppose, a student is more inclined towards Physical Education, or Sports as many might call it, and intends to follow her passion in Gymnastics because she has supple and graceful movements. However, her inclination might or might not flourish based on the fact how much this forced curriculum subsumes Physical Education or more specifically, Gymnastics. If the student's family is not self-sufficient to provide for the Physical Education, then the only means that remain for her to become proficient in this field is to rely on schools, which strictly follow a national curriculum. If the curriculum does not have any scope of Physical Education, she can only choose to follow her dreams once she reaches college. However, as one might be aware of, the flexibility of body reduces drastically, as one ages. She might not be that supple and graceful as she was a few years ago. Ultimately, she might not even get a chance to follow her childhood dream. This brings us to the point, should there be flexibility in the school curriculum?

While a certain amount of courses will always remain to be in the school curriculum, based on the past data and observations, I believe, schools should have freedom in choosing courses based on inclinations of students, that study there. A lot of students might be musical prodigy, but might never get a chance to flourish their skills unless they practice on it. While an affluent society will have private tutors, ready to teach their kids by charging money, not every household can afford this. This brings us to the point that as a nation, it is government's responsibility to cultivate and harbour its young talents.

And anyway, if everyone follows the same curriculum, chances are that in future, we will see so much competition among future students applying for college with same sets of skill or competencies, that some of them might not even make it to their desired college. This will be a travesty of the complete education system, which although, invisible today, might be quite prominent in the future.

To conclude, it, I believe, there should always be a scope of freedom for a student to select their curriculum. While we can generalize, lets say 70% of the subjects, rest 30% should be a children's choice, or of someone that holds the foresightedness to guide them, like their very teachers.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, however, if, may, so, then, while, of course

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2536.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 513.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94346978558 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80399176318 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508771929825 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 786.6 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5541720745 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.761904762 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4285714286 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214457385524 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636134041941 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0559636309012 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126292454576 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354335615766 0.0667264976115 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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