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.
Education is the backbone of any society to prosper and maintain a sustainable development. Its purpose is to free the mind and the spirit in order to achieve ideas and innovations required for a fruitful society. Having said that, formal education - while according to some restricts our minds and spirits - is designed to free the mind and the spirit in a constructive way, rather than a way in which divisions among people may outburst causing an ultimate chaos.
Whenever a formal education is designed by the government and the academicians associated with it, one important key factor which is addressed is how to coalesce the members of the society into one properly functioning body. When it is left free on people to decide what education they want to perceive, it can often be expected that unorthodox views may arise onto the surface causing division among people. Stretching the spectrum on a particular view because of no restrain in education will cause instability within the society which is counterproductive. The formal education is not there to limit science and research or to limit free-thinking, rather guide the free-thinkers in the right direction.
If education is left loose with people to perceive the world whatever way they want, it can be expected that views will arise which any sane person will reject. For example, in recent times, a person in Germany has filed a petition asking for pedophilia to be legalized. This unacceptable view grew to the extent that a woman has recently lectured on TedTalk as to why we should not treat a pedophile any differently! The American Psychiatrist Association has pedophilia printed as a mental disorder in their books and yet such unscientific views are being asked to be accepted in the name of free-thinking.
However, there is no doubt, as we learn from history, there are events when people were called heretics and punished for suggesting that the earth rotates around the sun and not the other way around. Many of the great inventions and theories probably would not exist today if some of the free-spirited individuals did not break the shackles of the “pre-historic” formal education.
We are at an era, in which information can be verified scientifically and with proper rational, thus allowing us to be restrained more logically than before with a formal education. Therefore, formal education is absolutely necessary to keep a society from falling apart into ideological factions, while encouraging free-thinking within limits justified by the proper course of human development.
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| 2019-10-30 | sushil koirala | 50 | view |
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 354, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a constructive way" with adverb for "constructive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...esigned to free the mind and the spirit in a constructive way, rather than a way in which divisions a...
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Line 6, column 276, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ories probably would not exist today if some of the free-spirited individuals did not break...
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Line 8, column 214, Rule ID: ABSOLUTELY_ESSENTIAL[1]
Message: Use simply 'necessary'.
Suggestion: necessary
...ucation. Therefore, formal education is absolutely necessary to keep a society from falling apart in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2165.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 417.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19184652278 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13538606211 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551558752998 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 692.1 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.8425535832 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.642857143 118.986275619 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7857142857 23.4991977007 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314590666607 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106218414436 0.0831039109588 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931947893347 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175860590968 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126350904542 0.0667264976115 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 14.1392134831 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.8420337079 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.1743820225 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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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.