Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.

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Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.

Educational institutions play an extremely important role in influencing the students’ career paths. It is a place where a student gets to explore various areas of the educational system. I would like to disagree with the statement as there is no specific way to measure the success of a person in any field. A conventional way to decide whether a student will succeed in a particular field is to see the average salary of the people employeed in that field. This method is flawed as it does not consider other factors of “success” except money. For instance, a wall street broker might earn millions of dollars but suffers from depression and fatigue due to his demanding job and a middle school teacher who earns a few hundreds of dollars is happy and satisfied with his job. Who is more successful? The definition of success varies on an individual basis. Hence, it would be wrong for the institutions to decide this.

Moreover, every field of study has people who are at the top and are earning very well and also those who are not earning much. For example, in India, Engineering field is regarded as one of the best fields to study and hence, India produces 1.5 million engineers annually for few hundred thousand of jobs. This has resulted in engineers working for a very low salary. As opposed to this, stand-up comedy, which is not even considered as a profession is thriving. Stand-up comedians are earning way more than engineers and yet no parent or educational institute wants a student to follow that profession.

Additionally, the educational institutions cannot predict the demand of any field because the fields which are considered as “good” ones may not remain the same in the next 50 years. For instance, in 1950s there was no demand for communication industry but with the rise of mobile phone and computers in the late 1990s, there was a huge requirement of people who studied in tele-communications field.

However, I do agree with the fact that some fields such as Social Science are low paying and do not offer much of job opportunities. And students might end up with high debts. But this can be true even for an MBA graduate who is unemployed with high loans. It is the skill of an individual that gets him the job rather than his field. Even plumbers and electricians earn very well if they are highly skilled.

The educational institutes should not try to dissuade the students from pursing the study of field in which they are unlikely to succeed as success is a vague term, it is not the same for every individual, everyone has their own opinion about success. Also, it is difficult to predict whether a student will succeed or not. Thus, the decision of pursuing any field of study should be based on the person’s interest and choice rather than that of the educational institute.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 747, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...hich are considered as 'good' ones may not remain the same in the next 50 ...
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Line 2, column 812, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 1950s'.
Suggestion: in the 1950s
...ame in the next 50 years. For instance, in 1950s there was no demand for communication i...
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Line 3, column 15, Rule ID: AGREE_WITH_THE_FACT[1]
Message: Use simply 'agree that'.
Suggestion: agree that
...le-communications field. However, I do agree with the fact that some fields such as Social Science are ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2362.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 489.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83026584867 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89366558997 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494887525562 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 738.0 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2179923048 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4166666667 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.375 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.295687649197 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0761306073282 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0823448651358 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200641473033 0.150359130593 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131127007464 0.0667264976115 197% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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