Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Education throughout its levels, aims to provide students with all the knowledge and practical skills needed in their life. This is supposed to occur through a well-balanced process between learning facts to practical skills.
Some people started to believe that through all the levels of education, from primary schools till universities, too much time is being spent on learning facts and not enough time on learning practical skills, which I would rather say happens to be true.
Analyzing my education process, from the early beginning in primary school until secondary school, I learnt only facts in all fields and branches of science, I studied many subjects, and not to mention the enormous amount of information and knowledge, however, I never had real practical classes. I was neither taught any practical skills in life nor had any practical sessions in different fields, I was only memorizing my classes, doing my homework and tried to pass my final exams.
After finishing high school, and entering faculty of dentistry, I thought things would be different, despite, I was shocked to know that the first two years were meant to be purely academic studies without any real dental practicing. Although they were followed by three years with some practical sessions, but they were not enough to well prepare us to be real life dentists, which meant that after graduation, I had to apply for private practical courses, to gain the proper skills and experience needed in a dental clinic, specially when it comes to the art of dealing with patients in a perfect attitude.
So based on my own experience, I strongly believe that too much time is being spent on learning facts only, without enough time on learning practical skills.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1473.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13240418118 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63888002667 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.567944250871 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 16.0721442886 50% => 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: 35.0 20.2975951904 172% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 86.0899783657 49.4020404114 174% => OK
Chars per sentence: 184.125 106.682146367 173% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.875 20.7667163134 173% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.125 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => 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: 0.331001088319 0.244688304435 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153544998954 0.084324248473 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.141672362153 0.0667982634062 212% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214247852487 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.14777414025 0.056905535591 260% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.7 13.0946893788 158% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.41 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.3001002004 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.07 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 10.1190380762 158% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => 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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