Some people say that in all levels of education, from schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Do you agree or disagree.

Essay topics:

Some people say that in all levels of education, from schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Do you agree or disagree.

Education system has changed during the last decades and government authorities managed to add the valuable academic subjects with brilliant impact on pupils to the schools’ timetable. While a group of people are advocates of these changes, others argue that there are more academic subjects which should be replaced by new practical skills. I believe that academic subjects are more beneficial for children.

There are some strong arguments why people assert that the recent educational system is appropriate for children. Firstly, they claim that the schools’ curriculum is already full with academic subjects such as literature, math and physics and adding any other practical subject would be a waste of time since it would put pressure on pupils. Secondly, children can learn the practical skills based on their interest and motivation as a leisure activity in their pastime. Furthermore, as they get more mature they will learn about some practical skills such as managing their bank account just by opening an account. Finally, there would be qualified people who are experts in some skills such as fixing a car who can help people.

On the other hand, there are some strong arguments against the educational system. The advocates of practical skills argue that young people will need some vocational training in order to find a better job and learning practical skills will open doors to better job opportunities. Moreover, all children are not interested in continuing their higher education and consequently the skills that they managed to learn while they were students can help them. A salient example of this is USA, that could boost the employment rate up to 40% by adding some practical skills to schools’ timetable in 2012.

In conclusion, although learning practical skills can be beneficial for a group of children, the schools should focus on the academic subjects to increase the level of knowledge among the students. I believe that pupils will have the chance to learn any kind of skill in their free time.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 663, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...inally, there would be qualified people who are experts in some skills such as fixing a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, in conclusion, kind of, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => 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: 1733.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25151515152 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70337849368 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 176.041082164 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512121212121 0.561755894193 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 523.8 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4419623953 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.785714286 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3571428571 7.06120827912 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182495823787 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06885008769 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0332608698514 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123344627923 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396412252607 0.056905535591 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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