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 the heritage of our ancestors, which describes the evolution of humanity throughout history. Constantly, wisdom is a set of familiar rules, which were agreed upon by the majority. Although wisdom is considered as a powerful, valuable and indispensable tool, it is not only questionable but also vulnerable to mistakes, as it is human-made. So, I strongly agree with the suggestion, that everything in our world is questionable. Every single information in this world must undergo questioning, to evolve, 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 flatness of Earth. While most of the astrologists of the medieval era believed that our planet is flat, it was discovered by chance, when Portuguese ships from the west were searching for alternative sea-lanes to reach India. Even though it was pragmatically proven yet not popular, most of the population did not believe the fact. Despite being obvious in front of their eyes, just because it is not familiar. Shockingly, most of these people were considered wise by the common folk, who had done ingenious scientific experiences and breakthroughs. On the other hand, iconoclasts, who have been always in doubt, have questioned this 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 in the monotony of the Earth.

Theology is considered as the base of culture and science in communities. In our world, there are hundreds of religions. Most of the followers were born finding themselves, for instance, a monkey-god worshipper. Defying all logical facts, that a monkey could not create a smarter being, neglecting that monkey is an animal, believing in a monkey and worshipping it, were all out of obeying wisdom, which is considered as a folly. Thus, every child should be taught to question everything around him -starting from an early age -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 have never existed. He only questioned, what was considered by everyone a pearl of 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 maybe as an act of treason. This will lead only to imprison the mind of an individual in a chain of traditional concepts, where any prospect for innovation is executed. 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, there are names in our history that challenged the common fact and proved its mendacity. Thus, questioning wisdom can contribute to the progress of our world.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, so, still, thus, while, as for, for instance, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.5258426966 189% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2767.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 541.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1146025878 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90166709488 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 289.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534195933457 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 862.2 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4136789302 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8214285714 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3214285714 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.53571428571 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242798645302 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0698902902733 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0889959247053 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146505347255 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0603181894274 0.0667264976115 90% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => 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: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => 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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