Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A teacher’s ability to relate well with students is more important than excellent knowledge of the subject being taught
Throughout history, education has played a prominent role in all societies. Due to its paramount importance and direct impact on a given society’s headway, efforts for its improvements have always been amongst the top priorities of educational systems. A controversial question regarding this issue is whether a teacher’s ability to relate well with students is more important or/than his/her knowledge of the teaching topic. Some people are inclined toward the opinion that a given teacher’s social and communicational skills are the most important factors contributing to a successful teaching and learning process, while others believe that lack of excellent knowledge decreases the teaching level. I, despite the general consensus, contend that both the social skill and knowledge are indeed essential for a flourishing education. In what follows, I will aptly substantiate my viewpoint.
The first exquisite point to be mentioned is that without great social and communicational skills, a teacher cannot transfer an educational material to his/her students, especially if they are infants or mentally challenged ones. One of the main goals of education is to train people for their future lives and vocations; a teacher who bonds well with students can teach them invaluable experiences regarding social life apart from the ordinary teaching syllabus. Take a personal experience as an example; back in high school, most of our teachers were the recent graduates from the same school; thus, they were young and had a variety of interests in common with students. Not only did this close relation make the teaching process more efficient, but also it established a meaningful and long-lasting friendship between pupils and tutors.
Another equally significant point to be mentioned is that students’ behaviors depend highly on the aforementioned relationship. A decent well-developed relationship will make students more compromising, whereas a poor one causes students to act more irrationally. The results of a study conducted in my country indicate that a vast majority of students in schools and universities are not co-operating with teachers, for they claim the teachers cannot relate to them. The survey further asserts that such problems were aggravated in cases with critically-aged students.
Nonetheless, no one could neglect the fact that without an excellent knowledge, the teacher would be incapable of instruction; he/she might not understand a topic, let alone explain it to students. Albert Einstein, who is considered one of the most intelligent scientists of all time, has mentioned in one of his writings that in order to determine if one has understood a fact, one should be able to teach that idea to his grandmother. This humorous statement underlines the importance of knowledge prior to teaching.
In brief, contemplating all the aforementioned reasons, one soon realizes that neither the knowledge nor social ability are solely sufficient for an outstanding teaching experience. Knowledge is essential prior to teaching and ability skills are needed during the teaching and learning process. Consequently, I highly suggest that authorities put more emphasis on teachers’ training in order to achieve a better educational system which in turn results in a promising future for the society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'consensus'.
Suggestion: consensus
...ases the teaching level. I, despite the general consensus, contend that both the social skill and...
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
...needed during the teaching and learning process. Consequently, I highly suggest that au...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, nonetheless, regarding, so, thus, well, whereas, while, apart from, in brief
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2846.0 1977.66487455 144% => OK
No of words: 509.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59135559921 4.8611393121 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22363033368 2.67179642975 121% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 212.727598566 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557956777996 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 872.1 618.680645161 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.427666116 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.3 100.406767564 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.45 20.6045352989 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272034863269 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803676573386 0.076458572812 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0770445526629 0.0737576698707 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150638121317 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594854176155 0.0645574589148 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 11.7677419355 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 58.1214874552 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.1575268817 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.44 10.9000537634 142% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.01818996416 120% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 86.8835125448 176% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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