Do you agree or disagree with the mentioned statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Explain details to support your answer.
I completely agree with the mentioned statement. It is really more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. This is because, the facts are anyways details of an event or subject. But, a concept can prove to form a base for learning further subject in depth.
First of all, I feel that if you a know a concept or an idea clearly, you can form your understanding around it. For example, if kids are taught the concept of addition, it won't matter what numbers you give them, if the kids have learnt the concept, they would be able to perform the addition despite the numbers provided. So, some kids tend to refer these numbers as a count of toys or candies, etc. But the important thing is they have learnt the concept and have built their understanding around it with reference to their favourite object. A fact on the contrary would not be useful in such circumstances. Facts are meant to be memorised and concepts are meant to be learnt.
Also, if we understand a concept very clearly, it becomes easy to grasp the later concepts which are dependent on the concept you just learnt. For instance, you learn the addition and calculating squares and square roots, and someone introduces you the Pythagorean theorem in Geometry, it will be very easy for you to calculate that. This is because you have already understood the previous concepts required to learn the Pythagorean theorem. There are so many ideas and concepts throughout any subject that forms the base of a more advanced idea or concept. So again, learning only facts here would prove to be a problem because you cannot always memorise everything, especially not everything that involves numbers.
Furthermore, facts are just details and can be found at one click on the internet and you do not need to apply your logic to understand that. Whereas, concepts and ideas are something that are maybe readily available on the internet, but unless you apply your own understanding and logic, you will not be able to solve problems based on that concept. A concept or an idea requires you to apply your intellectual and logical skills and hence are more important than mere facts.
While some people may disagree, specially the one with History or Archaelogy as a major because these are the fields where you are meant to remember facts. This is a subject where applying concepts does not work, since history is to be learnt as is. The civilizations, wars, kingdoms etc, are something that is an important part of the History students. So, for them learning facts is very importat. But, not all fields are like history and most of them requires their students to be thorough with concepts and not facts about the subject.
Therefore, I feel that eventhough learning facts may be important for some subjects, but learning concepts and ideas is what really shows your intellectual and mental capacity. To be able to use the knowledge provided to make or derive something new is the beauty of concepts and ideas. So, it is really more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 34, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...th. First of all, I feel that if you a know a concept or an idea clearly, you can f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, first, furthermore, hence, if, may, really, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, for instance, i feel, first of all, on the contrary, with reference to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 15.1003584229 265% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 13.8261648746 210% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2603.0 1977.66487455 132% => OK
No of words: 543.0 407.700716846 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79373848987 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82725184711 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59654532492 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.41620626151 0.524837075471 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 795.6 618.680645161 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8670620215 48.9658058833 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.115384615 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8846153846 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.80769230769 5.45110844103 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.452381629904 0.236089414692 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145702396423 0.076458572812 191% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120692180945 0.0737576698707 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.285056423574 0.150856017488 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11176684308 0.0645574589148 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 10.9000537634 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.27 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 86.8835125448 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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