Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary school to universities, too much time spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Agree or disagree?

Essay topics:

Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary school to universities, too much time spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Agree or disagree?

Having a hands on experience of any subject always helps to learn in a better way. It is said by many that while studying, more emphasis should be given on learning facts rather than practical skills. I completely agree to this point.

I had a very recent experience in my organization when a batch of MBA freshers was going to join. During one of my training sessions i asked the students about porter analysis. I could see many hands raising and even got many answers which were very theoretical. When i asked them to apply this to a specific example, they could not do it. This clearly shows the aptitude of students when it comes to application of concepts. MBA colleges, out of the two year program spend only three months on internship on student, which is very less to get practical exposure.

I personally faced the issue of less practical understanding in my younger days in school. We are taught in class about focal length of different types of concave and convex lenses. We even used to do practicals, which were once a week. During the end year examinations, i faced difficulty in performing the experiment in front of the faculty. This is due to lack of practical exposure for students and over-dependency on fact based learning.

I would like to conclude by saying that giving practical exposure to students will increase their credibility in this competitive world and help them achieve their goals in a smarter way than the harder way.

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Average: 6.1 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1209.0 1615.20841683 75% => OK
No of words: 253.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77865612648 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76319924004 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.604743083004 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 374.4 506.74238477 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8711264979 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.6 106.682146367 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8666666667 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.866666666667 7.06120827912 12% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0997969576134 0.244688304435 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0319476866618 0.084324248473 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430822464176 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0703668814531 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0621264671006 0.056905535591 109% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.0946893788 73% => 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: 10.15 12.4159519038 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 78.4519038076 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.

Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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