Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
I agree with the statement that teachers were more appreciated and valued by the society in the past than they are nowadays.
To begin with, people nowadays tend to have higher critical thinking than, say, people in the mid 20th century when the World War Two went on. During that period, educational institutions endeavored to cultivating children's patriotism towards the nation and the sense of collectivism, the ability of cooperating rather than criticizing. The natural result is that teachers, the symbol of authority, were valued by both the students and the society, and the myth of teachers were established.
In addition, now with more access to the knowledge, students can easily figure out teachers' problem and break out the myth of teacher. In the past, students can only learn knowledge from their teachers, while now they learn more from online newspapers, TV dramas, social media like Twitter and Facebook, even video games. Furthermore, with the popularity of social media people now are exposed to more and more sexual harassment cases happened in schools from kindergarten to college. I can not say that there were not similar cases happened before the internet boom, what I try to say is that it is much easier than before to expose those vicious cases. People just need to post a photo, an article or a video online, and the tweet can have millions of views. And then the society tend to reflect the role of teachers, and cast doubt on whether they are ethical enough.
Also, because of the degradation of degrees, taking courses and pursuing higher degrees is not out of the respect to the intellectual or human wisdom, but out of finding more respected jobs. With the unemployment rate increasingly higher, in order to effectively decrease the unpleasant rate, the government encourage the youngsters to pursue high degrees to prolong the time at school and delay the time for hunting for jobs. The situation, thus, becomes a vicious circle, students have to study harder and harder in order to find their purposeful careers. Also, the process of learning has become very utilitarian, previous respect to teachers has vanquished and been supplemented by the sense of gaining mutual benefit.
In a nutshell, teachers nowadays are more difficult to be valued than those in the past because of peoples' better critical thinking, the breaking of the myth and the inflation of the value of the degrees.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, so, then, thus, while, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 43.0788530466 37% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2030.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 402.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04975124378 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66540402275 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534825870647 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 622.8 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 9.59856630824 21% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 35.7630473472 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.333333333 100.406767564 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8 20.6045352989 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13333333333 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233388143036 0.236089414692 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0874984644805 0.076458572812 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125250502588 0.0737576698707 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195008078051 0.150856017488 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.170814880815 0.0645574589148 265% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 11.7677419355 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.52 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.002688172 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.247311828 156% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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