TPO 41: 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
There is no doubt that since the dawn of human civilization, teachers have played a pivotal role in societies as they train and educate several generations and prepare them for their own future roles in their community. Because of the specific nature of this profession, teachers have had a kind of dignity and value between people. However, recently there are two opposite views regarding this issue. Some people claim that teachers were more appreciated by society in the past, however, others hold a radically different view. From my own perspective, unfortunately, the first statement is true. Among several reasons which support my idea, I will delve into the most significant ones in the following paragraphs.
The most conspicuous point coming to my mind is that nowadays teachers do not have a good financial situation which emanates from the wrong government's policies. The governments do not allocate sufficient funding for the ministry of education, hence the teachers receive a low wage despite the heavy burden of their work. Year to year, other professions get a noticeable rise in their salary, while the teachers have a fixed wage and by an increase in the rate of inflation, they would be overwhelmed in their economic challenges. It is a bitter truth and it is morally wrong that today a vast majority of people appreciate each other based on their social position and financial power and due to this reason teachers' position is not appreciated by the society than the past.
Furthermore, one should also consider the literacy issue. In the past most of the people were illiterate, educational facilities were accessible for just a specific stratum of society. In those societies, the limited number of teachers were considered as the most knowledgeable people and they were respectfully appreciated by society. But later, the governments took some policies and implemented some effective approach in order to eradicate illiteracy. For instance, they established more schools, trained more adept teachers and provided funding for education, hence, people who could not afford private education had the opportunity to go to public schools. Gradually, the number of teachers and knowledgeable people increased and nowadays people's knowledge is not limited to undergraduate studies and in some societies the number of people who went further and have graduate and postgraduate degrees is considerable. Hence, teachers' role and position are not as conspicuous as before.
The final point I consider it worthy to bring up is the issue of the arrival of modern professions which are the direct consequence of advancements in different spheres of science and technology. In the past era, most of the people had occupations which had a close relationship with agriculture. For instance, peasant, landlord, shepherd or worker in an agricultural product factory. Therefore, the teacher was considered as a prestigious occupation and teachers had a high dignity and value in the society until the dawn of the modern era. Nowadays, there are lots of pivotal and complicated careers which require educated and dextrous people. Typically, these new professions are more prestigious than the teacher and have a higher salary. Hence the role of teachers in society is gradually fading out and they are not appreciated like before.
On the whole, as teachers are not financially potent, there are lots of people with a higher educational degree, and the presence of high prestigious careers, it makes sense to draw the conclusion that nowadays teachers are not appreciated by the society like the past.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, regarding, so, therefore, while, for instance, kind of, no doubt, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 13.8261648746 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3036.0 1977.66487455 154% => OK
No of words: 576.0 407.700716846 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27083333333 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94863433549 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475694444444 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 975.6 618.680645161 158% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5181274097 48.9658058833 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.44 100.406767564 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.04 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16 5.45110844103 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.24657060726 0.236089414692 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0681236158053 0.076458572812 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520530273287 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144130679753 0.150856017488 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0208006255581 0.0645574589148 32% => 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: 14.9 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 58.1214874552 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 86.8835125448 167% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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