The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Teachers or parents have different ways of teaching in different areas: Chinese people prefer strictness, which we can tell from the Chinese proverb that a strict teacher produces outstanding students, whereas people in some western countries like the US and the UK are more likely to praise students. The statement argues that to praise positive actions and ignore negative actions is the best educational method. I mostly disagree with the statement because overly underscoring positive actions and neglecting negative ones can bring some serious consequences while praising itself, if applied properly, can benefit both teachers and students.
Praising students' positive actions appropriately can not only make students more confident and more glad to learn but also make it much easier for teachers to cultivate excellent students. For instance, my high school math teacher Mr. Gao whose class always ranked number one was the most popular teacher in my high school. One of the important reasons, according to my observation, is that he could use praise to spark the interest of students in math. Students who tried his best to tackle a challenging problem could be even more motivated when receiving his praise. And students who were bad at math also wanted to prove themselves when Mr.Gao encouraged them and finally the fell in love with math. For Mr.Gao, he gained the best result by creating an optimistic atmosphere of learning math using proper praises.
However, students living in an environment where is full of praises are more likely to be arrogant and fragile. Once I taught a child English as my part-time job. He was just such an arrogant child whose home was teeming with various kinds of his certificates and did not dare to admit his mistakes when I pointed them out politely. Then, he challenged my ability of memorizing by asking me to recite a passage with him. And I beat him hollow by a fluent and accurate demonstration of how to recite. I saw his hands were shaking and obviously he could not accept it. So, how could we believe a child could be an eminent person as his mother who was always praising her child expected?
Indeed, the child could grow faster and become more modest and firm if his mother could point out his negative actions like that properly. As we all know, no one is absolutely perfect but everyone can become better and better by taking in lessons from their faults, which unluckily are usually difficult for themselves to find out. That is the reason why negative actions can also be beneficial if we deal with them in the right way.
To sum up, I mostly object to the statement while the suggestion can make some sense in some case and I would like to contend that both positive and negative actions can be indispensable and salutary in our growth if they can be treated properly.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Gao
...also wanted to prove themselves when Mr.Gao encouraged them and finally the fell in...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Gao
...ally the fell in love with math. For Mr.Gao, he gained the best result by creating ...
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Line 9, column 113, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Once” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...more likely to be arrogant and fragile. Once I taught a child English as my part-ti...
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Line 9, column 134, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ogant and fragile. Once I taught a child English as my part-time job. He was just...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, so, then, whereas, while, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2372.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 482.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92116182573 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58226672606 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526970954357 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 736.2 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.8016787798 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.6 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210994899137 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682116789416 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108847328471 0.0758088955206 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122266552771 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0964156115763 0.0667264976115 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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