Some people believe that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. Others believe that formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
We are presented with a dichotomy between the nuances of education, where the former states that education sets the mind free and makes the spirit independent. In contrast, the latter believes in putting the mind and spirit behind bars. I mostly agree with the former and believe that proper education is not defined solely by written texts and academic accolades but by soft skills and life lessons that make us better versions of ourselves.
Education is not a new concept and has been in the picture for ages. In ancient times not everyone could afford proper education since schools were limited and teachers were in high demand. Parents would have to spend quite a fortune to get their kids under professional guidance which included not only science and philosophy but also swordsmanship, horse racing, and other royal subjects. Unfair though it might sound it did adorn the kings and princes with numerous skills that the layman could only dream of. In order to rule over kingdoms, one needed a strong grasp over politics and warfare alike. It would not be wrong to say that if empires were ruled by fools, it would lead to a never-ending cycle of chaos and poverty.
Talking about the modern world, education is liberating. The ease of access and profuse information over the internet makes it possible for more and more people to get access to cheaper and better knowledge in the comfort of their homes. Schools have become multifunctional with not only academic but a variety of co-scholastic activities that students can choose from, to develop as individuals. Most institutes these days prepare a student not only for exams and company interviews but for the vicissitudes of life as well. A student of science knows about finance and also knows how to establish professional communication. Hence proper education is enabling us to equip ourselves with skills that prepare us for every possible situation that life might throw at us.
However, nothing in this world is absolute and this prompt is not an exception. Formal education often can be prejudiced to local and national factors. Most times history books contain biased information to glorify national history or spread hatred for other nations. There can be factual errors and missing information that formal education deems unnecessary from an examination point of view. Hence, formal education puts a barrier to the spirit of inquiry by quantifying the syllabus.
Hence I firmly believe that proper education is liberating and one must always seek for developing one's mind through correct knowledge and a skill set necessary to face all odds in life. Knowledge is power and power creates successful men.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...o establish professional communication. Hence proper education is enabling us to equi...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...inquiry by quantifying the syllabus. Hence I firmly believe that proper education ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, well, in contrast, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2248.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 441.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09750566893 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64857072929 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560090702948 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.077366918 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.181818182 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0454545455 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.04545454545 5.21951772744 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20225455451 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550875753767 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0606977591154 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111239941927 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656027405251 0.0667264976115 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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