Question authority. Only by questioning accepted wisdom can we advance our understanding of the world.

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Question authority. Only by questioning accepted wisdom can we advance our understanding of the world.

Wisdom is a fusion of both knowledge and experience. It is our heritage, that was left by our ancestors left. Currently, wisdom is a set of rules, which were agreed upon by the majority. Although wisdom is considered as truthful and valuable, it was made by humans, thus, it is not only questionable, but also vulnerable to mistakes. As a result, I strongly agree with the suggestion, that everything in our world must be questioned individually and logically and argue that everything in this world can evolve through questioning because of the following three reasons.

Firstly, there are some scientific facts, that if were not to be questioned, we would have lived in the dark age by now. One of these facts, was the Earth being flat. Most of the astrologists of the medieval era believed that our planet is flat. Actually, it was discovered by chance, when ships from the west were searching for alternative sea lanes to reach India. Even though it was pragmatically proven, most of the population did not believe the fact. Despite being in front of their eyes, just because it is not widespread. Shockingly, most of these people were considered wise, who had scientific experiences and experiments. Yet, iconoclasts, who have been always in doubt, have questioned that ignored fact and came to conclusion themselves, that the Earth has always been rather round than flat. If not for those, who challenged wisdom, we would have lived within a community, that still believes that, the Earth is flat.

Theology is considered to be the base of culture and science. In our world, there are hundreds of religions. Most of the worshippers were born finding themselves, for instance a monkey-god follower. Defying all logical facts, that a monkey could not create a smarter being, neglecting that monkey is an animal and believing in that monkey and worshipping it out of following wisdom is considered ignorance. Thus, every child should be taught to question everything around him starting from the very beginning and try to analyze facts to obtain the truth. As it is essential for humanity to progress.

Another example of questioning wisdom is the relativity theory of Einstein. If he did blindly believe the theories of the famous Newton, a whole science of quantum physics would never been existed. He only questioned, what was considered by everyone a wisdom, proved its falseness and even invented a new-whole science based on the opposite idea. So, questioning wisdom in this case, contributed directly to the evolution of science and thus the world.

Certainly, many consider questioning wisdom as forbidden or may be as an act of treason. This will lead only to imprison the mind of an individual. Another important factor is the familiarity of the idea, being strange, opposite and alone fighting against everyone to prove something that might be wrong requires a lot of energy. Despite that, we have names in our history that challenged the common fact and proved its wrongdoing. Thus, questioning wisdom can contribute to the progress of our world.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, may, so, still, thus, as for, for instance, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2572.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06299212598 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8290545253 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51968503937 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1511295039 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.6896551724 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5172413793 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.31034482759 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269381206907 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.073286004623 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0910511272332 0.0758088955206 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16929579269 0.150359130593 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0823117349819 0.0667264976115 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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