We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Learning process is said to be gradual and lifelong. We are gifted with the ability to think and form ideas and opinions. Through these discussions with each other, we evaluate our stance on a particular thought or issue and learn. The statement braoches an impotant issue about the process of learning-Do we learn much more from people who share the same views as us or from people with opposing perspective? I strongly disagree with the statement and firmly believe that we learn much more from the people whose views contradict our own.
One of the many ways to learn something is to ponder upon it, ask question and try to seek answers to these questions. When we engage in a healthy discourse with a person whose views oppose our own, the scope and possibility of learning something new is tremendous. Let us consider an example. Let us assume that two people, with opposing views on the issue of "Global Warming", are having a discourse. These two people, by sharing their own view on the issue, will give each other a new perspective to think about the other side. In addition, regardless of who is right, both of them will be tempted to think about the issue with this new perspective. This type of interaction helps us further our knowledge.
Let us consider another example of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. These brilliant minds would meet and discuss wide range of issues- from politics to relationships, from economics to metaphysics. If one has had the chance to read Plato or Socrates, one would realize their conversations were mostly the product of their disagreement on the various issues. The contents of their discourse are , even still, relevant. Had it been the case that all of them met and agreed on these topics, there wouldn't have been any discourse, and by implication, we would have missed out on great deal of wisdom.
However, this is not to say, it is absolutely impossible to learn from people whose views align with those of our own. It is quite possible that two or more people with same views can share their convictions with each other and hence further strengthening their own convictions. Although, this may result in strengthening their already held beliefs, this would not actually lead to learning something new. It would be simply a new interpretation for their current beliefs.
In essence, to further our knowledge in any field, a healthy discussion with a person whose views are different from our own is vital. These type of interaction give us various perspectives to think about an issue or about a idea, helping make a well rounded opinion about something and making us a better person.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, hence, however, if, may, so, still, then, well, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2212.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 452.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89380530973 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73901178834 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491150442478 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.9890301214 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.1739130435 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.652173913 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317301012968 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100738287719 0.0831039109588 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126937247015 0.0758088955206 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190938029901 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127778467159 0.0667264976115 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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.