Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Formal education and its effects are often debated. Proponents of formal education believe it is the panacea for troubles around the world whereas critics believes it instills our minds with dogma and leaves us with narrow vision. It is not just the content of formal education but also the associated messages which make a difference. The effects of formal education depend on how it is delivered and the accompanying message.
When differential calculus was first invented in the Newton-Leibniz era, it was done with the intent of providing a stronger arsenal for mathematicians and scientists for further discoveries. It acted as a solid foundation for the development of concepts of modern physics like atomic models and quantum mechanics. Had it been developed with a limited view to prove certain concepts and restrictions on its use for further development, it would’ve restricted the minds and spirits of twentieth century physicists. However, it has been increasingly used in the development of ideas in various fields.
Another great example of this is when JJ Thomson’s son won the Nobel prize for providing a more elaborate atomic model which disproved parts of atomic model proposed by JJ Thomson himself for which he won the Nobel prize as well. He used the base provided by his father’s ideas to explore new territories. Such is the nature of liberating education.
On the contrary, in medieval Europe, early ideas about a universe with the Earth at its centre were taught religiously and people who questioned it were punished. This restricted the vision of multiple generations and slowed down innovation in the middle ages. It took a considerable amount of effort to bring in new ideas and challenge the existing beliefs. Galileo faced the church’s wrath whenever he tried to share his new ideas with the masses. This definitely restricted the minds and spirits of the people during those times and set scientific innovation in Europe back by a century or two.
In summary, educational practices which establish rigid ideas and fixed beliefs act as instructional guidelines intended for informing all individuals of the same set of existing ideas with very little room for innovation. On the other hand, practices which portray current education as a baseline to be used for further discovery or revolutionary ideas, provide minds with the arsenal and motivation for advancement.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, still, well, whereas, as to, in summary, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 12.4196629213 8% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2043.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 387.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27906976744 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.016804442 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558139534884 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 650.7 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6713763866 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.5 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11111111111 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.123982197225 0.243740707755 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437808359797 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531375831146 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0728453453297 0.150359130593 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0718448495667 0.0667264976115 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.7 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.