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?

Due to growing competition, schools and colleges are giving emphasis on quality education. While some people argue that the students are being taught more theoretical knowledge and facts I believe that practical skills are also an equally important part of their curriculum.

There are numerous reasons to believe that practical knowledge is being imparted to pupils. To begin with, most of the educational institutions, mandate practical as well as theoretical learning. In fact both these are part of compulsory education and equal weight age is given to them during exams. Secondly, the governments around the world understand the importance of practical skills in today’s evolving world; hence the students are provided with dedicated hours for experimenting with the theories and facts they learned in the classroom. For example, biology students also get lab hours when they can dissect living organisms such as frogs and mice to learn more about the anatomy of living organisms.

Thirdly, it is a well-known fact that no knowledge is complete without its practical as well as theory side. Thus taking this into consideration, the universities and colleges do not award their degrees before a student successfully completes their final leg of study with a firm and gains practical / work experience. For example, engineering students must do on-the-job training for a few weeks in a company before they are presented with a degree.

Therefore, to encapsulate, I assert that most educational institutions understand that both aspects of learning are equally important for the youngsters and hence they provide facts and practical skills to the students without depriving them of either.

Votes
Average: 6.1 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, for example, in fact, such as, as well as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1441.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 264.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45833333333 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94425241539 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.579545454545 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => 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: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2897354293 49.4020404114 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.0 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4545454545 7.06120827912 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13033750699 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0517221932151 0.084324248473 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0301536851027 0.0667982634062 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0886602114865 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0323970526334 0.056905535591 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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