Schools should do more to prepare students for the non-academic aspects of adulthood.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Italian Thinker Antonio Gramsci states that the education of a human being is bifurcated. According to him, education starts in the social sphere, particularly, at home, with family and friends. Then, it continues at school, in military or in workplace. In this case, we can assume that the education of a human being continues as long as he or she ceases to exist. Also, by “education” he means is a non-academic one. Such a process turns a biological being into a social one.
Gramshi’s point of view, especially the idea that education starts at home, is widely acknowledged. However, we are living in the 21th century now. The children can barely spend time with their families. Parents are spending long hours at work and children are almost raised by professional baby-sitters. Also, compared to the previous years, children are starting to receive education at school at younger ages in many developed countries. In this case, we can say that the responsibility on the shoulders of schools in terms of non-academic education gets heavier. Thus, it is defendable that schools might be spending more effort to get children ready for life, after the academic one.
One good example for that is the “Village Institutes” in Turkey. These institutes were offering education mainly focused on parenthood, arts and crafts, farming alongside with maths, science and linguistics. It can be said that the academic and non-academic lectures were almost tantamount. These institutes were the places to go for the people who will be staying in their villages after graduation and these schools were enormously succesful for developing the rural areas.
Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that a dentist or a construction sector worker, no matter what they want to be, every children should receive a degree of academic education. Everyone asks “How am I going to use algebra in life?” to their teachers at school. However, in case of an economic crisis, everyone should be able to think critically and deal with such issues with problem solving skills.
My argument in this case is that, the solution is establishing specialized institutes for every need. There should be schools focusing partly on non-academic topics, since we also need scrupulous tailors, succesful repairmen and detail-oriented blue-collar workers. However, we also need professors, teachers, doctors too. Private sector or governments might establish specialized academic schools and lead children who are interested in academic life to these institutes. Every children should be able to receive education according to his or her aspirations or talents.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, nevertheless, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2258.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 418.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4019138756 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13705972954 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540669856459 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 704.7 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.0038767304 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.32 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.72 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.88 5.21951772744 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.83258426966 331% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12043650292 0.243740707755 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0367389886869 0.0831039109588 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0321030626167 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0744314162576 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0216909118216 0.0667264976115 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.74 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => 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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