Schools should do more to prepare students for non-academic aspects of adulthood.
Education is certainly the most important aspect of a person’s life. What one learns in school creates the foundation of one’s life. But is education only limited in academic fields? Are there no important aspects of education than having a high academic profile? At the heart of the debate over future of education is the question of this prompt: are academic subjects like mathematics and history more important than life values, ethics and morals? Many in India, believe that the system of rote memorization and strict quantitative evaluation is necessary to sustain a healthy life style. The same people forget the account that adulthood is primarily non-academic, and school is meant to prepare students for adulthood. Thus, schools should indeed prepare students for non-academic aspects of adulthood.
At the heart of the recent financial crisis was the proliferation of sub-prime mortgages, in which people without any capital were able to procure a mortgage the payments of which they would never be able to afford. How were so many people hoodwinked by predatory loans? It is because of education, in spite of all of math classes, did not prepare to tackle life problems. What is the use of calculus, which is only a subset of a student’s life will ever use in their lives or jobs, in comparison to lessons in reading contracts or investing intelligently?
Non-academic skills are as important as academic skills or even more on micro level as well as macro level. Most of the schools in India have a fixed syllabus in school, which every student must study who is attending that school. The aforementioned syllabus includes math and science as its primary subjects with a very little focus on subjects such as, moral science, music, arts, sports etc. So, students who are willing to go to non academical field of study faces enormous difficulty in getting a platform to show their talents and skills. Compared to the school in countries like USA and China, which focus on both academic and non-academic aspect of education allow students to explore their talents and afford them to progress and make a career in their respective area of interest.
Of course, many educational theorists argue that the workplace is increasingly being channeled in jobs requiring high academic qualification and technical proficiency. These theorists believe that the only way of remaining competitive in this fast pacing world is to ensure that schools focus on academics such as math and science. However, it turns out that the most advanced tech-companies in the world claim that mental flexibility is far more important to their hiring decision than academic knowledge.
An academic education is inarguably one of the important aspect of adulthood. But these skills are merely one part what makes a person a well-rounded individual. For too long Indian schools are focus on quantifiable metrics of achievement; if we were to complete in the world, it is necessary to design new education system premised in preparing students for the lives they are most likely to face, rather than some idealistic concept.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, thus, well, of course, such as, as well as, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2621.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1594488189 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88746448894 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523622047244 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 839.7 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2500147071 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.956521739 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0869565217 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.34782608696 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.389470360396 0.243740707755 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116695937318 0.0831039109588 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.149810927962 0.0758088955206 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203483720364 0.150359130593 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128546765324 0.0667264976115 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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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.