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

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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.

Learning in schools or universities has different aspects. Students may tend to learn concepts or facts. Society is often divided on the importance of each one. I disagree that learning ideas and concepts is more important and believe in the applicability of learning facts. There are three reasons why I subscribe to this idea which are separately elaborated hereunder.
First, facts are absolute and don't change with time while the concepts may change. To explain more, consider physics or mathematic's facts. After the discovery or derivation, they stay stable and scientists can use them always with mere changes. As a result, they can elaborate on the facts or find more implications for them. On the contrary, ideas and concepts are changing from time to time or between different cultures and individuals.
Second, I believe that facts are more practical in human everyday life while learning the concepts may be the concern of some special persons. For example, engineers use consistent scientific facts to ease the ways that people do their tasks, as anyone can see in industry or even health and medical issues. Moreover, the range of its benefits covers more people. Understanding concepts have nothing to do with matters that most people are facing every day.
Finally, I think that learning facts is easier for students, so they will accept them better. Facts are tangible, straightforward, and easy to understand while concepts sometimes have different interpretations that can confuse anyone. In addition, the educating process is more convenient for teachers to teach facts rather than explaining a lot about ambiguous ideas for some confused and bored attendants.
In conclusion, I am on the side of the importance of learning facts in comparison with concepts or ideas because learning the facts is easier, more applicable, and reliable.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, while, as for, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 52.1666666667 63% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1564.0 1977.66487455 79% => OK
No of words: 297.0 407.700716846 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26599326599 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84798333575 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56228956229 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 618.680645161 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8156424262 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.8888888889 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5 20.6045352989 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 5.45110844103 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.45700745306 0.236089414692 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128286174816 0.076458572812 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0817976932036 0.0737576698707 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250319297192 0.150856017488 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0349813179505 0.0645574589148 54% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 86.8835125448 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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