The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
The best way to teach (someone) is to praise their positive actions and to ignore their negative ones. While the claim nails one of the most effective methods of teaching - encouragement, it completely misses one factor - feedback. A child, student, person cannot learn anything till he is given feedback for his existing ideas and thoughts. It would be immensely wrong for a teacher to ignore a student's negative actions.
Consider a toddler, learning to talk, learning how to behave, learning how to live. If his parents do not correct his mistakes, how is he ever going to even know whether he's making any mistakes? Now consider him throwing a tantrum. Of course, he needs to be told that's wrong. Ignoring insolent behavior will more often than not lead to him getting a false idea of the way the world works. He'll be under the impression that he can get whatever he wants simply by throwing a few tantrums, and he'll also believe that there's nothing wrong with that.
Of course, a teacher always needs to remember that there's a way of giving feedback. He does not need to lacerate the student, he can be gentle in his guidance. That would be another issue altogether, to strike a balance between strict enforcement of rules and gentle learn-it-yourself kind of a discipline. However, ignoring negative actions is in no way warranted.
Even while learning new skills, we always want feedback, to know different ways of doing things, to know more efficient techniques in those domains. Yes, the feedback can be quite harsh sometimes, but that's the only way we learn. It is a proven method.
Again, there are very few cases where the negative actions need to be ignored. For example, consider this scenario - a student is sitting with his tutor the night before his Math exam. He is extremely weak, and has already failed the test so many times that he has lost count. This time, he cannot afford to fail. He fails not because he does not know how to solve any of the questions, but he lacks confidence, and is unable to get right even the ones he does know. In this case, it would probably be wise to ignore his negative actions, and focus on the few questions that he can get right, and just try to make sure that he gets those right on the actual test.
However, such scenarios would only make up less than 5 percent of the sample space. For a more general scenario, it is never good for a teacher to ignore someone's negative actions, as feedback is the most important tool of learning.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'while', 'for example', 'kind of', 'of course']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.182902584493 0.240241500013 76% => OK
Verbs: 0.194831013917 0.157235817809 124% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0755467196819 0.0880659088768 86% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0755467196819 0.0497285424764 152% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0675944333996 0.0444667217837 152% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0874751491054 0.12292977631 71% => OK
Participles: 0.0437375745527 0.0406280797675 108% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.49812343335 2.79330140395 89% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0437375745527 0.030933414821 141% => OK
Particles: 0.00198807157058 0.0016655270985 119% => OK
Determiners: 0.0874751491054 0.0997080785238 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0218687872763 0.0249443105267 88% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0119284294235 0.0148568991511 80% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2504.0 2732.02544248 92% => OK
No of words: 444.0 452.878318584 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.63963963964 6.0361032391 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.315315315315 0.366273622748 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.234234234234 0.280924506359 83% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.171171171171 0.200843997647 85% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0698198198198 0.132149295362 53% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49812343335 2.79330140395 89% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 219.290929204 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529279279279 0.48968727796 108% => OK
Word variations: 61.4017588484 55.4138127331 111% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6194690265 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.76 23.380412469 76% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4264068712 59.4972553346 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.16 141.124799967 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.76 23.380412469 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.36 0.674092028746 53% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.21349557522 192% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 41.1834234234 51.4728631049 80% => OK
Elegance: 0.929411764706 1.64882698954 56% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.455842256121 0.391690518653 116% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0586673354217 0.123202303941 48% => Sentence sentence coherence is low.
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.060263081535 0.077325440228 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.457647925775 0.547984918172 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.142528066818 0.149214159877 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14649657719 0.161403998019 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.151010952405 0.0892212321368 169% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.239743964987 0.385218514788 62% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.047650674562 0.0692045440612 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273467455898 0.275328986314 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123241095936 0.0653680567796 189% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.30420353982 207% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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 to cover all aspects.