Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Education in the United States, as well as in many other developed countries, has become increasingly regulated and formulaic with time. Because of the customs and formalities that are now omnipresent in our schooling systems, some skills and important life lessons are absent from curriculum and are instead replaced with skills that are easier to quantify. Formal education has the ability to set our minds free, but in its current state, it often holds us back.
Though formalities have made education available to all on a national scale, they also have limited the number of ways one is able to teach and learn. For many, learning is not only achieved through lectures and textbooks. Hands-on experience, reciprocated conversation, and real-life examples are all tools that teachers can employ to help students fully understand a concept or idea. As formalities have become central to the learning process, these tools are replaced with standard lecture and test formats that don’t allow room for varied learning styles. This restriction not only limits the capacity that students have to learn, but also restrains their ability to think critically and adaptively in situations in which this standard is not present such as in a work environment.
The current standard of education is not only limiting to how teachers can get information across, but also what information is presented. Institutionalized testing is required for most high schools and colleges, which forces educators to prepare students for exams that test only specific, unchanging topics. Math, base general science, and basic history are ubiquitous amongst tests that high schoolers are required to take, so teachers must devote extra time to those subjects while skimming over others, leaving gaps between content.
Many of the subjects that are skimmed over or skipped completely are those within the arts. Music and art and incredibly important for many students, allowing them to express themselves and develop their minds as creatively as they want. Within our current lecture-formatted and STEM-focused schooling system, these subjects are an afterthought. Offered as an elective, music and visual arts courses usually require additional money from the students, all while not counting towards any graduation requirements. These two factors combined dissuade students from exploring them, therefore restraining our minds when we haven’t yet even realized their potential to develop us as people.
Formal education has certainly brought advantages to schooling, as regulations help us make sure that no student is left behind. The content and delivery seems to create an equal playing field for students to learn, but it ignores how students may need non-lecture formatted classes to truly succeed. It also neglects subjects that do not fit so neatly into this lecture format, with the arts receiving less attention than other subjects. Because of these factors, formal education in its current state restrains us much more than it does free us to become autonomous and independent people.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun other seems to be countable; consider using: 'many others'.
Suggestion: many others
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... present such as in a work environment. The current standard of education is not...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, as for, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2626.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47083333333 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81882313899 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56875 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 801.0 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0969585249 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.3 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195725882409 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579217523773 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733200531527 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108177847393 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0628795715086 0.0667264976115 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 100.480337079 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => 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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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.