Some people argue that experience is the best teacher. Life experiences can teach more effectively than books or formal school education. How far do you agree with this idea? Support your opinion with reasons and/or your personal experience.
In the recent years, the phenomenon of learning through experience instead of books has become a heated debate between parents, teachers and students. Although contested by many that experience teaches more effectively comparing with books or formal education, such an issue is considered both constructive and positive and by a substantial number of individuals. In my point of view, I am inclined to believe that both life experience and books are essential to help people grow and discover their talents.
Firstly, subjects including language, science and drama require students to learn from practical experiences. From my experiences, although theories can be taught from books and exams, how to use the language, conduct an experiment and perform in front of audiences must be learnt through practices. I have conducted a survey on this issue and discovered that those activities help majority of students better understand the theories and allow them to apply those skills learnt in daily life. Therefore, life experiences enhance knowledge from books or formal education.
However, without textbooks some concepts are impossible to understand, which including literature, law and philosophy. It is essential for students to know the fundamental theories and learn from the related case studies in books. For example, one of my colleges who intend to get a job in law industry were tested by her employers on an exam to see her knowledge and problem-solving skills. In this case, candidates must acquire fundamental theories or concepts by reading related journals, books and articles to get jobs in those fields.
In conclusion, while there are compiling arguments on both sides, I profoundly believe that individual learn from both reading and performing different activities to gain the necessary knowledge and skills in life.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.5418719212 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 6.10837438424 49% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 8.36945812808 227% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 31.9359605911 141% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1562.0 1207.87684729 129% => OK
No of words: 286.0 242.827586207 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46153846154 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95852134521 2.71678728327 109% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 139.433497537 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583916083916 0.580463131201 101% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 379.143842365 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7309504112 50.4703680194 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.166666667 104.977214359 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.9669160288 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.41666666667 7.25397266985 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 2.91625615764 274% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175043518643 0.242375264174 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675481733878 0.0925447433944 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0710717191447 0.071462118173 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0992607847894 0.151781067708 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0876184714384 0.0609392437508 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 12.6369458128 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.1260098522 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.9458128079 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 11.5310837438 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.32886699507 111% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 55.0591133005 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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