Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Learning in schools or universities has different aspects. Students may tend to learn concepts or facts. Society is often divided on the importance of each one. I disagree that learning ideas and concepts is more important and believe in the applicability of learning facts. There are three reasons why I subscribe to this idea which are separately elaborated hereunder.
First, facts are more reliable since they are absolute and don't change with time while the concepts may change. To explain more, consider physics or mathematic's facts. After the discovery or derivation, they stay stable and scientists can use them always with mere changes. As a result, they can elaborate on the facts or find more implications for them. On the contrary, ideas and concepts are changing from time to time or between different cultures and individuals. Consequently, students are about to come across with different interpretations which negate each other sometimes.
Second, I believe that facts are more practical in human everyday life while learning the concepts may be the concern of some special persons. For example, engineers use consistent scientific facts to ease the ways that people do their tasks, as anyone can see in industry or even health and medical issues. Another example is historical facts that there is no doubt about the importance of accuracy for them. Moreover, the range of its benefits covers more people. Understanding concepts have nothing to do with matters that most people are facing every day.
Finally, I think that learning facts is easier for students, so they will accept them better. Facts are tangible, straightforward, and easy to understand while concepts sometimes have different interpretations that can confuse anyone. In addition, the educating process is more convenient for teachers to teach facts rather than explaining a lot about ambiguous ideas for some confused and bored attendants. For instance, compare a teacher who explains a historical event with amusing details and consequences with a teacher who tries to explain the difference between greek and ancient Roman philosophy.
In conclusion, I am on the side of the importance of learning facts in comparison with concepts or ideas because learning the facts is easier, more applicable, and reliable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 60, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...re reliable since they are absolute and dont change with time while the concepts may...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, while, as for, for example, for instance, i think, in addition, in conclusion, no doubt, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1939.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 364.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32692307692 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88343120644 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 604.8 618.680645161 98% => 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: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.4383239286 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.3333333333 100.406767564 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3333333333 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.47619047619 5.45110844103 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => 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: 0.462745352554 0.236089414692 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127661805631 0.076458572812 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078993268632 0.0737576698707 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.262134531335 0.150856017488 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271079065091 0.0645574589148 42% => 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: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.