Education systems should focus more on imparting practical skills than on teaching theoretical knowledge.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Education is the backbone of any country that is trying to walk on the path of development. Many countries have seen significant growth in their economies as the literacy rates and enrolment ratios grew over the years. As countries focus more on educating their population, the real question arises, what is the right way to educate the youth so that they are capable of becoming inspiring leaders of their countries?
Over the years, education, especially in countries like India, has focused on teaching from a theoretical perspective. The concept of learning and revising the same materials has been going on for years. One of the stark implications of this type of approach is that children, in the later stages of their lives, lack analytical thinking skills and their critical approach to problems is also weak. This further has great implications when they enter their jobs and the use of these critical reseaning skills becomes vital. On the other hand, one of the benefits of having theoretical based learning is that the ability to follow procedures and concepts of understanding becomes strong. Gaining fundamental knowledge of a particular subject is very important when a person is trying to specialize in a particular field.
In the recent times, countries like Finland, Netherlands and Iceland, have been seen to reduce the timings of school for children and even in some cases, they have reduced the number of working days. These countries have been known to not give their children any homework and all the learning seems to be happening in classrooms. This depicts a stark difference from the other traditional frameworks that are followed in countries like India, China and South Korea where children are known to spend atleast 10 hours daily in schools or other educational institutions. Now the main question is why are countries like Finland, Netherlands and Iceland adopting such methods?
The main reason behind these types of school strategies is that these countries believe in educating their youth through practical skills. Their school curriculum depends heavily on activities that are practical in nature rather than theory. Through these kind of methods the students are able to build onto their critical reseaning skills and analytical skills. The students's examinations are also like this. The questions are also more based on checking the analytical thinking of the student rather than how theory has the student learned. These kinds of methods have shown great success when we look at the trajectory of their careers and how practical thinking has helped them grow.
Through several conversations with employers and other stakeholders in India, it was also revealed that the freshers in India nowadays are lagging behind in comparison to other countries as they lack critical thinking abilities and are more used to following instructions and taking help from theory.
This argument reveals the pros of both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. However, it's highly important to understand the context of these skills. In the current times, we need to evaluate what is more beneficial for the youth and what would eventually help them grow in their careers and make them more successful.
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- Education systems should focus more on imparting practical skills than on teaching theoretical knowledge Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you tak 16
- Education systems should focus more on imparting practical skills than on teaching theoretical knowledge Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you tak 16
- Education systems should focus more on imparting practical skills than on teaching theoretical knowledge Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you tak 66
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 625, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...stion is why are countries like Finland, Netherlands and Iceland adopting such me...
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Line 7, column 251, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...l in nature rather than theory. Through these kind of methods the students are able to bui...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, so, kind of, in some cases, what is more, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.9520958084 15% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 55.5748502994 140% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2725.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 519.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25048169557 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71039031754 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481695568401 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 816.3 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2331764382 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.47826087 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5652173913 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65217391304 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0882124010273 0.218282227539 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0293055535123 0.0743258471296 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.025185309333 0.0701772020484 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0502195850472 0.128457276422 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.022038605938 0.0628817314937 35% => 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: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 625, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...stion is why are countries like Finland, Netherlands and Iceland adopting such me...
^^
Line 7, column 251, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...l in nature rather than theory. Through these kind of methods the students are able to bui...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, so, kind of, in some cases, what is more, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.9520958084 15% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 55.5748502994 140% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2725.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 519.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25048169557 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71039031754 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481695568401 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 816.3 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2331764382 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.47826087 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5652173913 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65217391304 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0882124010273 0.218282227539 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0293055535123 0.0743258471296 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.025185309333 0.0701772020484 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0502195850472 0.128457276422 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.022038605938 0.0628817314937 35% => 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: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 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.