Some people believe that teaching morality should be the foundation of education. Others believe that teaching a foundation of logical reasoning would do more to produce a moral society.
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 above.
Education is an extremely crucial part of and individual's childhood, because it is what sets up the base and foundation for him to lead a successful and satisfied life. Whatever we learn in our formative years is what shapes our lives ahead. Hence it is extremely crucial that a proper foundation of education is given to every individual, so that they can then go on to fulfill their dreams. There may be contrasting opinions about what should be the base of education. According to some people, teaching morality should be the core of education, whereas according to others education should underlie a foundation of logical thinking. In my opinion only one out of the two is not sufficient for the holistic development of a child. Hence I can not completely side with either views in this, education according to me should entail both logical reasoning as well as moral teachings.
Moral teaching is extremely crucial in education because it is what forms the basis of all decisions. A person may be of highly knowledgeable and adroit but if ultimately his decisions in life are not morally correct, he will not be able to lead a successful life for long. Morals and ethics are the fundamental units of our lives. Basic concepts like honesty, integrity, fairness etc. are what enable us to live a gregarious and peaceful life. A person could be extremely successful but if the means to his end are not morally correct he ultimately would not be contempt with his life. Thus moral teaching is extremely important for producing a moral society. If everyone starts making only unprincipled and unethical decisions, the society would soon turn into a collection of reprobates. For example in business, every decision or policy along with being profitable should also be ethical because that is what helps in running a successful business in the long run. Like the industrialist Vijay Mallya was the owner of kingfisher airlines and a very successful entrepreneur, but he committed financial embezzlement and now along with facing a bankruptcy is also on the run from the Indian Police. Thus it is extremely important the teach morality.
On the other hand logical reasoning is also extremely important for the growth and learning of a person. Without learning how to think logically a person will never be able to practice critical thinking or analysis which form the founding steps to solve any problem. Logical reasoning will set a child up for a successful future where in he will be able to solve all kinds of problems from trivial to complex based on critical asessment. This is what will enable a person to make a fair decision while being dispassionate. For example for an engineer, logical reasoning is extremely crucial to solve day to day problems. Even for a businessman logical thinking is crucial to strategize business plans and run a successful companies. Hence based on logical thinking a moral society will be produced where everyone makes critical decisions while being unemotional or unjust.
Hence according to me as substantiated above, both logical reasoning and moral teaching are extremely crucial to the development and growth of an individual. So the foundation of education should be layed as a mixture of both in equal proportion, moral teaching perfectly balancing out logical reasoning and vice versa. Equipped with both the skills, will an individual be able to lead a successful life. For example a successful and revered politician or leader of the nation is the one who formulates logically correct policies for the benefit of the nation but also never strays away from the morally correct path.
Hence in conclusion, in my opinion I can't agree with only one viewpoint and a perfect mixture of both is required to produce a moral society.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, then, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3153.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 630.0 442.535393258 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00476190476 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00997013923 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85877422562 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433333333333 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1026.0 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7343226154 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.1 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.56666666667 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 7.80617977528 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246989238814 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0754507263602 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694106406207 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147472405741 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544597142553 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.72 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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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 1, column 244, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... years is what shapes our lives ahead. Hence it is extremely crucial that a proper f...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 735, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...or the holistic development of a child. Hence I can not completely side with either v...
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Line 1, column 857, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...me should entail both logical reasoning as well as moral teachings. Moral teaching is e...
^^^^^^^^^^
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ly would not be contempt with his life. Thus moral teaching is extremely important ...
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...pt with his life. Thus moral teaching is extremely important for producing a mora...
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Suggestion: Thus,
...also on the run from the Indian Police. Thus it is extremely important the teach mor...
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... Police. Thus it is extremely important the teach morality. On the other hand logical ...
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Line 5, column 724, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'company'?
Suggestion: company
...ize business plans and run a successful companies. Hence based on logical thinking a mora...
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Suggestion: Hence,
...s plans and run a successful companies. Hence based on logical thinking a moral socie...
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Suggestion: Hence,
...s while being unemotional or unjust. Hence according to me as substantiated above,...
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Line 7, column 417, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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Suggestion:
...e to lead a successful life. For example a successful and revered politician or l...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... away from the morally correct path. Hence in conclusion, in my opinion I cant agr...
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Line 9, column 38, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... Hence in conclusion, in my opinion I cant agree with only one viewpoint and a per...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, then, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3153.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 630.0 442.535393258 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00476190476 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00997013923 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85877422562 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433333333333 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1026.0 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7343226154 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.1 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.56666666667 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 7.80617977528 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246989238814 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0754507263602 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694106406207 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147472405741 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544597142553 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.72 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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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.