Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
I definitely agree with the statement that it is more crucial for the students to understand a concept than just learning facts. I think this for the reasons which I will explore in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, what is the point of making students learn facts if they do not understand the reason or the idea of how that fact is an important thing to learn. For example, if the students are just made to learn the dates of the major events which took place during the American Civil War without telling them why the war took place in the first place itself. Then, how will they know why the war is such an important event in US history. There is no point in making them just blindly learn the facts without explaining the idea or history of these facts.
Furthermore, I think that it is more important for the student to know how and why something is a fact rather than just learning a fact. To explain this I would like to talk of the example of the American Civil War which I mentioned earlier. Now, what do you think would be great, a student knowing that the dates of the war or a student knowing the reason for the war. Knowing a fact without reason is like doing a job without even knowing why you are doing it.
Lastly, I think that the purpose of education is to educate students. To make them know and understand the histories, ideas, theories, and philosophies of the world. So, if greater emphasis is made on just making them learn facts than understanding concepts, the purpose of the education will be lost. Also, if the students are said to learn a fact without encouraging them to question themselves why this is a fact, and what is the reason that people believe it as a fact. It might block their thinking capabilities. They will not be able to question the existence of things around them. They won’t be able to create ideas of their own. This might lead to the creation of a future generation with no mind of their own. The future might see no new inventions because they were never taught to think and question in schools and were just made to learn facts. The future of our planet will be dark.
To sum up, I think that more emphasis should be given to explaining ideas and concepts in schools than making students learn facts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, lastly, so, then, for example, i think, to begin with, to sum up, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1864.0 1977.66487455 94% => OK
No of words: 416.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.48076923077 4.8611393121 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36973880043 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.399038461538 0.524837075471 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 547.2 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.51630824373 86% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0841937677 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.7619047619 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8095238095 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.85842293907 259% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347370985206 0.236089414692 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109197094286 0.076458572812 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104151357123 0.0737576698707 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233082254156 0.150856017488 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0921164946984 0.0645574589148 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 11.7677419355 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 77.57 58.1214874552 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.7 10.9000537634 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.55 8.01818996416 82% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 86.8835125448 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.