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
The ideas and concepts are enables to reason about actual working of something important. The facts corresponds to history like who was involved in development of something and at what time. Although many people think that knowing about history is better because they think that it enables students to see the world progress, i believe that it is more advantageous to learn about ideas and concepts. There are several reasons for it.
Firstly, the ideas and concepts lead to practical implementation. For example, the mathematicians introduced the concept of similar triangles that is if two triangles share at least two common angles and measurement of one side is known, then one can determine the measurement of another side that is parallel to the one whose measurement is given. This concept was taught by my teacher to me in class and i understood well. Later, i was passing by a ground, where people were climbing on a ladder to measure the height of tower. It was daytime and the shadow of tower could be seen on ground. It quickly clicked the idea of similar triangles in my mind and i said them that you do not need this ladder to measure, we can do it by staying on ground. I asked one of the person to stand parallel to tower. The shadows of both the man and the tower were also parallel on ground meeting at same end point. By using the concept of similar triangles we measured shadows of man and tower and also the height of man,then we applied the directly proportional concept on them such that men's height was directly proportional to tower as shadow of man was directly proportional to shadow of tower, thus requiring no need to climb. Notice that, i don't know who introduced this concept first.
Secondly, the concepts are more important than facts. It can be clearly seen by taking example of programming languages such as C. Lets say i am writing a piece of code that calculates first thousand prime numbers. What is necessary for me to calculate such numbers is my own logic and syntax of C language. In both of these requirements, i don't need to know when C was introduced, who introduced it and how he developed this language. Therefore, it is only necessary to understand concepts apart from its history.
Finally, learning about history wastes precious time that can be given to learning about its practical use. Considering the example of a topic that is electric bulb and teacher is teaching his students about it. If the teacher starts talking about the facts that when, why and how this bulb was introduced, then it will consume a lot of class's time. On the other hand, if teacher diverts students to tell them its purpose, its voltage requirement and type of holder to use corresponding to variant of bulb, then it would be more advantageous for students.
Ultimately, i feel that learning about ideas and concepts is better because it helps in more practical implementations rather than wasting time on knowing about history of something.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, apart from, at least, for example, i feel, such as, talking about, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 15.1003584229 192% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.0286738351 181% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 52.1666666667 148% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2459.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 516.0 407.700716846 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76550387597 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72611189178 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 212.727598566 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459302325581 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 761.4 618.680645161 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.8356470579 48.9658058833 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.36 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.64 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 5.45110844103 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.5376344086 181% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.183244292404 0.236089414692 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582007848841 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0628384844808 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109772063642 0.150856017488 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0220312975601 0.0645574589148 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 86.8835125448 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.