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.
The purpose of education differs with the acquaintance of people’s ability to perceive. However, the statement is subject to complexities of discussion as the matter itself generates several circumstances or situations that develop certain beliefs pertinent to certain aspects experienced by people who took education. Mind and spirit need to be aligned for a prospective life. There are many ways to interpret what purpose of the education is served to people. Further discussion is explained in the following paragraphs.
When a certain group of people experience lack of education among their herd and tend to be plummeting with the progression compared to other group that is making progress rapidly with their lifestyle, basic needs, social welfare, public health and safety etc. they will be believing that purpose of education is to derive knowledge for progress. The knowledge acquired from being educated will definitely bring about new perspectives in their life to look at things differently than they did earlier. For instance, this group may be villagers from rural background with poor facilities, poor fund of knowledge on health, safety, people welfare, basic amenities etc. who look at education as a purpose to free their mind their spirit to acknowledge a better range and perspective of looking at things.
The formal education comes with the predetermined educational syllabus that teaches students in a hierarchy manner. For instance, our history books taught us about the certain dynasties, what reforms and policies were set at that period, what caused certain revolutions etc. but mainly including the same history through the years rather the facts that are discovered in recent times, which invalidates such a historical claim thereby needing the history syllabus to change. When students are taught with something that holds invalid even when they demand to change it, there mind and spirit against their will is restrained to study what is taught and not to go beyond it.
There are enormously huge number of people who believe education is restricting our will, mind and spirit to analyse or glean beyond what is taught rather than enabling us to. Also, this case holds true when educational systems work for their own welfare rather than working on student’s welfare. Since, people who have experienced such a circumstance will believe firmly that education is not serving its purpose of enabling us to free our will and mind, rather restraining it. On the other hand, people who suffer lack of education and its positive consequences believe that education as a tool can help them progress beyond their imagination.
However, debating on people’s belief is as subtle as the nuance the statement holds. Therefore, the purpose of education can be extremely different for different groups of people. A poor group would want education for the prosperity, progress etc. and believe that it serves to free the mind and spirit. While the other educated group would feel that education is hindering their ability to learn beyond what is taught, restraining their will, spirit and mind. With the discussions in the previous paragraphs it is a nuance to position or to take a side.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 272, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...public health and safety etc. they will be believing that purpose of education is to derive ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, while, for instance, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2709.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 515.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26019417476 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75041809519 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477669902913 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 825.3 704.065955056 117% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1760007081 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.875 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4583333333 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.339309454683 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109978205355 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0880595870596 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20557845215 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718246586313 0.0667264976115 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 272, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...public health and safety etc. they will be believing that purpose of education is to derive ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, while, for instance, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2709.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 515.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26019417476 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75041809519 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477669902913 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 825.3 704.065955056 117% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.1760007081 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.875 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4583333333 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.21951772744 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.339309454683 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109978205355 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0880595870596 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20557845215 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718246586313 0.0667264976115 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.