A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
The children are future of a nation. They are the ones who going to run the nation and be responsible for it’s development in future. And to handle those responsibilities they need to be qualified enough to perceive them accordingly. Therefore, it is very important to form a strong base in their formative years. Education plays an important role in forming the basis of child’s future by not only helping their development at personal front, but it also plays a vital role in making them responsible citizens. Hence, providing all children with same benefits of education is very necessary. Thus, the curriculum being followed in a nation should be similar. However, nation should not impose curriculum blindly and strictly, schools must be provided with some liberty to alter it as per the needs of students so they could be provided with more benefits.
Having same national curriculum for all the students of a nation is having many positive aspects. For example, let us consider a student whose parents are either in defence or government service. For such students, nature of their parents job is transferable. Their parents keep on being transferred from one city to another on regular basis as part of their job. As a result, students need to move from one school to another through out their school life. Here comes the importance of having same national curriculum for all students. If it’s not, then for such students it would be a disadvantage as they would need to adapt to new curriculum, and once they adapt to it their parents might get transferred again. Hence, existence of different curriculum will always keep impeding progress and learning curves for these students. According to me, presence of common curriculum in a nation would smoothen school life of many such students without obstructing their learning and creativity.
Other positive aspect of having same curriculum for all students is the opportunity of providing them all with the same benefits of education.
For instance, every students have to move to college after the school studies are over. We are living in the age of competition. Everyone needs to clear some entrance exams before being admitted to the college of their choice. In this instance, if some students are following a certain curriculum and others are following a different one, then students whose curriculum is closer to the syllabus of entrance exams would be benefited more as compared to the ones whose curriculum is distant. Apparently all students won’t be equally benefited and hence these exams would be doing prejudice to them. For example, in India we have many education boards like CBSE, ICSE, and many different state boards. In India there is a national body to automate curriculum which is NCERT, but not all education boards follow it. Thus, for a student coming from Rajasthan board (one of the state board), it’s very difficult to compete for engineering entrance exams like JEE, where it’s easier for students from CBSE and ICSE boards. Thus, all students should possess same education and skills if they had to compete at same level. This could only be ensured if they are all provided with same curriculum guidelines.
However, a nation shouldn’t make schools to follow these guidelines in a stringent manner, they must be provided with some liberty to make changes in their curriculums. Not all students have same interest and learning capabilities. Some are fast learners, while some are average and rest are extremely slow. Having same syllabus for all students with different capabilities and interests would somehow result in dropping their interest in subjects. To overcome such a situation and keep students motivated and interested in studies, schools must vary their curriculums.
Finally recapitulating, I would emphasise that having same educational guidelines throughout a nation is a good idea. However, it shouldn’t restrict schools from moulding it to some extent to benefit students with different capabilities.
I do not support the statement that a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. A nation shouldn't enforce some specific subjects on it's students, this would restrict their creative and innovative thinking.
Each student have his/ her own specific field of interest which they want to pursue as their career. If we restrict students choices to some specific subjects it would limit their knowledge in their field of interest. Having different curriculum for different interest areas gives students a glimpse of that specific filed and they know basics of that subject. They would be more aware in selecting their majors in college. Also it would open increase their extent of knowledge and thinking.
Statement of having same curriculum for all students of the nation is totally dependent on the assumption that before entering in college, students need not to learn basic of their area of interest. And also that whatever be their area of interest they need to learn same subjects. Also this statement assumes that in college students learn basic elementary knowledge about the subjects. These assumptions are totally baseless as we know life of a student is going to be tough in lack of proper knowledge of basic concepts. Moreover if students move to some other country to pursue their college studies then they won't be able to compete with those students who do not have any such restriction on their curriculum and are already aware of basic concepts about their interest areas. For example, consider a computer science student, in order to perform well and grasp knowledge speedily one should be aware of basic computer programming, mathematics. For a student of MBBS, it's very necessary for him/ her to be well aware of biology and it's related subjects.
For a student of business studies being aware of basic business concepts is very important to perform well in college.
In many schools we get option to study different languages like french, hindi, english, chinese, spanish etc. These languages are also very helpful. If we limit all students to study only one language say French then those students who move to China where chinese is basic language, they would be in loss.
In conclusion decision of nation to make it's students study the same national curriculum is not a prudent one.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, moreover, so, then, well, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1985.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 393.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05089058524 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52216636153 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 215.323595506 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.440203562341 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 618.3 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7009075208 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.473684211 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6842105263 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26315789474 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => 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: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385794020499 0.243740707755 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14237943356 0.0831039109588 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.197071630319 0.0758088955206 260% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270150629538 0.150359130593 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.2014816721 0.0667264976115 302% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 100.480337079 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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