Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Institutions of great learning thrive on a culture to learn freely and hence, the primary duty of an institution is to provide an open learning environment; facilitate different points of view and nurture different levels of understanding. The prompt suggests that educational institutions should proscribe students from pursuing fields which may not lead to success. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with this suggestion and argue that an individual should have the freedom to choose the field of one's pursuit for three reasons.
Firstly, learning is as much a function of passion and interest as it is of one's ability. While one's ability can increase, the same cannot be said about one's interest. Ability depends on a variety of factors such as resources, environment, exposure and facility and it may change as these variables change. A great poet in one language may not be equally expressive in another but then it is just a matter of learning the other language to produce a masterpiece. Thus, a prescribed better choice for someone, based on ability, could be misleading.
Secondly, there is no assessment criterion to establish the probability of one's success in a particular field. Success in a field is far more nuanced than any standardised test can capture. We are well aware of students who dropped out of educational institutions to create immense value in their field of interest. Some may argue that subject matter experts would be able to assess one's probability of success but it would be far more simplistic to assume so. Even the most advanced of such assessments have failed to measure the future probability of success based on current performance.
Thirdly, such a system would create an operational nightmare for educational institutions. These institutions have limited resources allocated towards a particular field and a reallocation of these resources as per the changing requirements could be an insurmountable hurdle. Those who argue that it would lead to optimisation of resources should consider the time and opportunity cost - both for the student and the institution.
Of course, a world where everyone could see the future and decide for today would be a perfect utopia. But we live in a world where chances, choices and changes guide our path to learning and success. Perhaps more than arriving at utopia, it is the journey that matters.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 32, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to thrive'
Suggestion: to thrive
Institutions of great learning thrive on a culture to learn freely and hence,...
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Line 1, column 499, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...have the freedom to choose the field of ones pursuit for three reasons. Firstly, ...
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ion of passion and interest as it is of ones ability. While ones ability can increas...
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Line 3, column 97, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nterest as it is of ones ability. While ones ability can increase, the same cannot b...
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Line 3, column 154, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...increase, the same cannot be said about ones interest. Ability depends on a variety ...
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Line 5, column 76, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...iterion to establish the probability of ones success in a particular field. Success ...
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Line 5, column 326, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...ue in their field of interest. Some may argue that subject matter experts would be ab...
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... matter experts would be able to assess ones probability of success but it would be ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, of course, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 387.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16279069767 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9851236001 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542635658915 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 639.0 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.905711337 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.157894737 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3684210526 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.21951772744 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147142427676 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0474428920926 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791751731017 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0803940671006 0.150359130593 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754924149388 0.0667264976115 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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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.