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.
The statement raises a variety of issues about the role of education. On the one hand, morality is necessary in the current stress-packed and money-worshiping society. On the other hand, logical reasoning is applied in all kinds of everyday decisions and saves time to people. Therefore, it would be helpful to teach both morality and logic at school. As far as I am concerned, I believe that it is preferable to teach logical reasoning than morality at school for the following reasons.
The first thing that springs to mind is that a moral character cannot be developed through teaching. On the contrary, morality is learnt through experiences and everyday interactions. To illustrate this, let us consider that a person acts immorally towards his classmate. The teacher's role is to punish this kind of behavior rather than teach the importance of respect and kindness in class. Common sense informs me that rebellious teenagers might react to and reject these theoretical concepts about morality, while others might not even understand how these theoretical concepts are linked to their behaviors and dilemmas.
Another issue I would like to focus on is that the code of ethics is a personal and subjective issue. It strikes me that teachers are not able to transmit the value of specific actions in an objective way. Few would disagree that teachers will be influenced by their own experiences when molding the beliefs of their students.
A compelling argument against morality and in favor of logical reasoning is that logical reasoning is applicable in a wider range of decisions. If the person is trained to think rationally, he can easily consider the impacts of his action, not only to himself but also to the rest of the people involved, and realize if his action is immoral. However, when logical reasoning is taught, teachers should always underscore that emotions should not be completely neglected when making decisions on the grounds that humans do not operate like robots.
In conclusion, if I had to choose between morality and logical reasoning, I would choose the latter to be taught in schools since it is more objective and ubiquitous in everyday life. Although morality is essential in a society, it is learnt through experiences rather than theoretical education.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 277, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...ts immorally towards his classmate. The teachers role is to punish this kind of behavior...
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Line 5, column 186, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an objective way" with adverb for "objective"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... transmit the value of specific actions in an objective way. Few would disagree that teachers will ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, kind of, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1924.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13066666667 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85568252204 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 603.9 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2484233966 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.888888889 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8333333333 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.16666666667 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253584304988 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738096148135 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605376133615 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132123124412 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741051566642 0.0628817314937 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 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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