Some people believe that teaching morality should be the foundation of education. Others believe that teaching a foundation of logical reasoning would do more to produce a moral society.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented above.
Any person without the capability of logical reasoning can be very rightly termed as an "illiterate". Some may say that the above statement is quite debatable as literacy is defined as the ability to read, write and understand correctly in any one particular language. But if a person is not able to logically deduce the relationship between say, the cause and the effect or the premise and the conclusion, he may not be truly a literate because he/she may not able to comprehend or understand in a comprehensive manner, as he has just crammed certain areas which would on paper classify him/her as literate, doesn't make him/her an absolute knowledgeable person.
Propagandists of the belief that teaching morality should be the foundation of education fail to realize that if the students are not able to understand why the morals are important for living a valuable life, or how these morals can have an impact on oneself and also on the people around us, then teaching the students is equivalent to making the talking parrot rote some sentences. As the parrot knows what he is supposed to speak and is incapable of making subtle differences or important decisions which the human brain is adaptive to make, we are nurturing puppets not students who are our future generation. We are not teaching them to the correct values in the correct way.
On the contrary, a foundation of logical reasoning would shape the young minds in the correct direction as they would feel more responsible in their own decision making process. One may ask why I feel so. It is quite certain that if we teach kids at a very young age the minute differences between good and bad, correct and wrong, truth and false based on logical reasoning they are bound to remember these values for life, they need not rote it to remember the moral values. Learning or cramming those values won't take them long. And when the kids are making their own decisions, and we can quite be sure, they would be logically reasoning it out before doing so, they are more bound to make the right decisions in life as they are taught the right values at an impressionable age.
A moral society produced from the teaching whose foundation is based on logical reasoning, doesn't bind the society on some pre-written rules or principles of the society or the oral tales passed down through generations. It in fact, liberates them from orthodoxy that is not valid in the modern times and helps them to make logical amendments that would be helpful to the society as a whole. If the foundation of teaching was based on morals, the younger generation would never dare to make changes as they would be in a constant fear that going against the set rules and principles would have fatal repercussions. But, when these morals are developed based on logic, they can certainly understand and inculcate the fine border that exists between good and evil, and how they can help themselves and the society when they cross the fine line. By inculcating morals through logical reasoning, we do not only protect the youth but also make them competent enough to face all the hard challenges of life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'saith', 'says'.
Suggestion: saith; says
... as an 'illiterate'. Some may say that the above statement is quite debat...
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Message: Did you mean 'anyone'?
Suggestion: anyone
...read, write and understand correctly in any one particular language. But if a person is...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a comprehensive manner" with adverb for "comprehensive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ay not able to comprehend or understand in a comprehensive manner, as he has just crammed certain areas w...
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Suggestion: doesn't
... on paper classify him/her as literate, doesnt make him/her an absolute knowledgeable ...
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Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
...n have an impact on oneself and also on the people around us, then teaching the students is equivale...
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...undation is based on logical reasoning, doesnt bind the society on some pre-written ru...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'i feel', 'in fact', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.191126279863 0.240241500013 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.172354948805 0.157235817809 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.100682593857 0.0880659088768 114% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0563139931741 0.0497285424764 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0580204778157 0.0444667217837 130% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.107508532423 0.12292977631 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0494880546075 0.0406280797675 122% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71352227104 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0273037542662 0.030933414821 88% => OK
Particles: 0.00170648464164 0.0016655270985 102% => OK
Determiners: 0.107508532423 0.0997080785238 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0307167235495 0.0249443105267 123% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0255972696246 0.0148568991511 172% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3151.0 2732.02544248 115% => OK
No of words: 542.0 452.878318584 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.81365313653 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.317343173432 0.366273622748 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.241697416974 0.280924506359 86% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.160516605166 0.200843997647 80% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.116236162362 0.132149295362 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71352227104 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 219.290929204 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463099630996 0.48968727796 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 54.567641099 55.4138127331 98% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 33.875 23.380412469 145% => OK
Sentence length SD: 100.738445367 59.4972553346 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 196.9375 141.124799967 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.875 23.380412469 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5625 0.674092028746 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 58.0447416974 51.4728631049 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.21428571429 1.64882698954 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281687195393 0.391690518653 72% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.135188154969 0.123202303941 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0800436796846 0.077325440228 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.567627765644 0.547984918172 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.199574451732 0.149214159877 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12183689759 0.161403998019 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736883568078 0.0892212321368 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.451064646553 0.385218514788 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.031005329558 0.0692045440612 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19977640883 0.275328986314 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.048489491726 0.0653680567796 74% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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