In some countries, students do not pay any tuition to attend universities. However, in other countries, students must pay to attend universities, and the cost of university tuition can be very high. Therefore, some people believe that all the nations should use taxes to fund universities so that they could offer free university education to any student. What is your opinion?
Nowadays, since our society has witnessed the unprecedented accumulation of material affluence, more and more people attach great importance to education. In this regard, a general controversy arises. Some people advocate that the government should divert a large amount of money deriving from taxes to the university education to make it free to all students. As far as I am concerned, I hardly concur with this idea, and what I believe can be substantiated as follows.
In the first place, allocating excessive money to universities just in order to reduce the tuition of students will grind down the overall quality of teaching and research. As we all know, the teaching quality of a professor is highly associated with the number of students in a class. If the universities open their doors to all students, the classrooms will be too crowded to let teachers pay enough attention to every student. Needless to say, this proposal will curtail the possibility of promoting the teachers to educate students in accordance with their aptitude. Moreover, it is also the professors' responsibility to conduct research and write scientific papers. With too many students packed in a school, they will no longer have enough time to do research and thus the academic performance and discoveries of a university will also be curbed. My business professor is a prime example of this point. One semester, he started a course about organizational behavior and more than 100 students enrolled in that class. Too many students in a classroom talk with others and laugh loudly during class, distracting him significantly while delivering the lecture. Besides, he had to utilize a large amount of time to correct students’ assignments, leaving no time for academic activities.
In addition, free education may not deliver benefits to students and make them study harder. Most time, all of the students need to study assiduously and participate in some examinations to enter a university. In some countries, a better education means higher tuition. Sometimes, although students may come from poverty-stricken families, they can still gain scholarships to pay for the expensive tuition and continue their studies. In this way, real talents can be selected. If all the universities are free to the public, some students may not be motivated to study hard since no matter how their grades are, they are still granted the chance to enter a university. Meanwhile, it will also be more inefficient to find out students who are passionate about academics and research since they no longer endure pressure to stand out so as to gain grants. It is investigated that money is not the main reason for quitting an educational program in terms of students who are in universities rather than in primary schools and high schools. And sometimes, though students have to pay for costly tuition, money can be the stimulus to push them to study industriously.
Admittedly, free universities also can be beneficial to students under certain circumstances. Students can ease their financial burden when they are perusing their academic dreams. However, it is also unavoidable that the deficiencies can trigger some negative outcomes as listed above and we should think more thoroughly when discussing this problem.
In a nutshell, although knowledge is priceless, the tickets to the ship of education also need to be paid for. On no accounts should we ignore the adversities of free education, and it is too rash to label free universities as a superior choice.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 597, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...heir aptitude. Moreover, it is also the professors responsibility to conduct research and ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 105, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... and make them study harder. Most time, all of the students need to study assiduously and ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 833, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... no longer endure pressure to stand out so as to gain grants. It is investigated that mo...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, thus, while, as to, in addition, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 9.8082437276 214% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 52.1666666667 155% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.0752688172 223% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2969.0 1977.66487455 150% => OK
No of words: 573.0 407.700716846 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1815008726 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89258810929 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01974089467 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 212.727598566 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.500872600349 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 938.7 618.680645161 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4514128031 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.035714286 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4642857143 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.45110844103 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306570545474 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0820107806707 0.076458572812 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570641503943 0.0737576698707 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162649387476 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0634951471656 0.0645574589148 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 148.0 86.8835125448 170% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 597, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...heir aptitude. Moreover, it is also the professors responsibility to conduct research and ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 105, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... and make them study harder. Most time, all of the students need to study assiduously and ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 833, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... no longer endure pressure to stand out so as to gain grants. It is investigated that mo...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, thus, while, as to, in addition, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 9.8082437276 214% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 52.1666666667 155% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.0752688172 223% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2969.0 1977.66487455 150% => OK
No of words: 573.0 407.700716846 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1815008726 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89258810929 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01974089467 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 212.727598566 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.500872600349 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 938.7 618.680645161 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4514128031 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.035714286 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4642857143 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.45110844103 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306570545474 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0820107806707 0.076458572812 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570641503943 0.0737576698707 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162649387476 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0634951471656 0.0645574589148 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 148.0 86.8835125448 170% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.