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
Some argue that the purpose of education is to prepare students for financially rewarding careers. This is true in some regard, as careers that tend to be financially rewarding to the individual are also quite vital to a successful society. For instance, many would say that a career in healthcare can be financially rewarding, and even more so if they engage in further education to become a specialist in their field. These specialists, such as brain surgeons, child psychiatrists, and others all contribute valuable assets to the community. Nevertheless, the sole purpose of education has never been, nor should it ever be only to prepare students for financially rewarding careers.
For one, our education system is set up so students learn more things than they could read out of a textbook. They are taught social interaction when they eat lunch with their peers, as well as discipline when they stand in line to go back to their classroom. When they interact with teachers they must also learn that they are to respect their elders and when they don’t they learn there will be consequences for their actions. These are all lessons we must learn to be successful members of our society. It can be argued that these skills contribute to successful financial outcomes in student’s futures, people don’t learn to be polite for the purpose of knowing how to act in an important interview one day - people learn this to be successful with other people.
Another purpose of education is to let individuals learn their passions. In school - especially higher education - students have choices when it comes to what they study. Many programs offer “pre-majors” so students can learn what they are good at and what they find most interesting. If the purpose of education was to prepare students for a successful financial future, there would likely be less programs offering programs in social work or elementary education, but that is not the case. One counter-argument to this, is that we do often times find more funding in schools for programs in science and engineering than we do for education and the arts, suggesting that higher education does believe that purpose of education should be focusing on careers that will set their student’s up for financial successful.
Finally, another reason that there is more to education than finding well paying jobs is the diversity of experience often required in education. As a neuroscience student, it would be most advantageous to a career if I focused only on classes such as neuroanatomy, cognition, and sense and perception, however, I also take courses in speech and history and language in order to become a well rounded member of my society. In order for students to both be advantageous in their career and in their life it is required to have a wide range of skills that education can provide. One could disagree and state that these courses can also increase preparedness for future financial success.
Although there are arguments that the sole purpose of education is to get student’s ready for high paying careers, in this response I have outlined that is not the only purpose. Education is also responsible for things such as life skills, building passions, and diversifying skills.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, nevertheless, so, well, as to, for instance, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2749.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 539.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10018552876 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98644662457 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437847866419 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 851.4 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.9989005612 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.904761905 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6666666667 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.61904761905 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0427318840932 0.243740707755 18% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0169967104085 0.0831039109588 20% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0136542837382 0.0758088955206 18% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0319292796107 0.150359130593 21% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00901991282251 0.0667264976115 14% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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