Students should be taught academic knowledge so that they can pass exams, and skills such as cooking or dressing should not be taught. To what extent do you agree/disagree?

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Students should be taught academic knowledge so that they can pass exams, and skills such as cooking or dressing should not be taught. To what extent do you agree/disagree?

The matter of education is one of the main concerns at the 21st century. As one said, education is the only way for a country to maintain, develop and further improve the system. No one else but students are the future of the world. Now, there is an opinion state that students only need to learn Math, Physics, Chemistry and other compulsory subjects at school in order to pass the exams. Social skills such as cooking or cleaning the house are not recommended. To my point of view, I have some contrast arguments with this idea. In this essay, I will explain why.

First, lab subjects such as Math is necessary, but other life skills are important in order to enjoy a good life. The main target for a school to teach students subject is to develop the brain to think logically and enable the ability to solve any problems effectively. Maybe some can not learn specific subjects, but they can somehow make their mind work in their own way. However, Logarithms and Aerodynamics can not save you from a sunken ship. That is when the critical social skills kick in. You need to know how to swim to get yourself out of there, and to know that you also need to learn. While science helps us to make ourselves smarter, basic abilities to do daily routines are also a big requirement.

Second, learning is not only about passing the exam. As mentioned above, learning is about improving our brain. If someone has an intention to learn mechanically just to pass the exam, he or she might mislead the true purpose of studying. Furthermore, according to a research, the way of word-by-word learning can make a person become passive with their own life. They can not acquire the minimum flexibility to face a problem, hence worsening their career, or even life-or-death situation.

Overall, the need of teaching life skills is undeniably important. From my idea that I stated above, schools should use a parallel system, in the same time tutoring both science and social skills to have the best improvement for students and learners.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, while, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1679.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 354.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74293785311 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5638904239 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570621468927 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.6098890513 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.9523809524 106.682146367 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8571428571 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 7.06120827912 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.141600238599 0.244688304435 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0380561391933 0.084324248473 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0308149338759 0.0667982634062 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0830955807652 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0215842553001 0.056905535591 38% => 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: 9.3 13.0946893788 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.4159519038 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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