ormal 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.
Whether formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free can be weighed in many aspects. However, the statement is flawed because it does not take some cases into consideration.
Admittedly, the author's claim appears to have considerable merit. In some fields of studies, formal education does tend to retrain our minds and spirits. In ancient China, when people wanted to work for the government and got the desired paid, they needed to take a national-wide examination. In such a test, people were required to compose articles or poems that only allowed to be written in specific formal. Every person who wished to surmount the exam should study the fixed type of literature, and thus the context and their thoughts were circumscribed by the formal.
However, the author fails to take some of the modern sciences and studies into account. Many fields of the study offered by the academy system nowadays only teach people tools, the fundamental knowledge and how those techniques or skills can be applied to real-life issues, instead of restricting people's minds in certain shapes. Data Science, for example, is one of the inspiring studies nowadays. People only use the modeling methods as tools, but how to apply it depends on the situation which required the users' meditation and acumen. In this case, formal education offers a floor rather than a ceiling.
Moreover, as new technologies being invented, their details will also be added to textbooks. These details involve not only the pros but also cons and thus invent further issues. To avoid the issue brought by the new technologies and knowledge, people need to search for deliverance whether to solve them or circumvent them. Therefore, in this case, formal education imparts us the information on new technologies, and the further gives us another platform to utilize our minds and thoughts.
On the surface, the author's claim may seem to have some logical sense, but it falsely precludes some particular cases. Formal education is now further developed with the emergence of new technologies, and therefore not only does not restrict our minds and spirits but also lends credence to them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 294, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ed to take a national-wide examination. In such a test, people were required to co...
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Line 5, column 35, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...l. However, the author fails to take some of the modern sciences and studies into accoun...
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Line 5, column 511, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'users'' or 'user's'?
Suggestion: users'; user's
...nds on the situation which required the users meditation and acumen. In this case, fo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1840.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 358.0 442.535393258 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13966480447 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66613929536 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555865921788 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.1276652713 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.222222222 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8888888889 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.159900354448 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0512379803636 0.0831039109588 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651516327524 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105531504046 0.150359130593 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695958023438 0.0667264976115 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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