Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Formal education is such education that is conferred by educational institutes for students of a particular society. While it can not be denied that this sort of education conveys general knowledge to students, its demerits are also prominent.
Students and younger generations are the backbones of a society. Education molds the mind of these generations for the future. Formal curriculam should be designed so that a student can enlight himself/herself with the basic attributes of being a social being in this cosmopolitan world. A good knowledge of what is wrong and right, what responsibility lies in the world, basic knowledge of how everything works etc. should be taught via formal education. While the intention is there, execution of formal education today seems eschewed.
To elaborate, "pass the exam"- seems to be the main point forayed to the student by the educational institutes. The teaching-learning method became depended upon acing tests, instead of gathering knowledge. For example, we can take the education system in the developing countries like Bangladesh. The curriculum there puts students under extreme pressure of homework and constant tests, whereas the norm should be having an interaction based knowledge and fact sharing. Tests are designed mostly based on memory based questions, whereas tests should be designed to determine understanding and analyzing. Mind of a student can not expand without proper teaching-learning experience.
In contrast, if we take developed countries like Japan into account, we can see that their learning method is based on hands-on experience. Students are learning responsibilities through cleaning their classrooms after class, ethics through helping elders in a institution once a week, science through experiments. Also the curriculum is constantly updated based on the need of the society. The tests are intricately designed to enable creative thinking and disable over memorizing.
In addition, Collaborative study instead of cooped-up classroom studies enables students to muster up innovative solutions and ideas. Increases teamwork and broadens their mind to tackle modern day problems. While it is not recommended that all formality should be given up in the education, but, evidently stringent education system does nothing but constricting the vast intellect the students have in them.
In conclusion, there should be a flexible education system, which can be a mix of formal and informal teaching-learning. Certain rubrics should be followed in designing curriculum and tests so that student will not feel immense pressure. Collaborative and free form of tackling real life problems should be introduced in the education system to broaden their mind instead of constricting their intellect using banal methods.
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- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free. 83
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- Some people believe that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. Others believe that formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely alig 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 260, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...class, ethics through helping elders in a institution once a week, science throug...
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Line 7, column 316, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ce a week, science through experiments. Also the curriculum is constantly updated ba...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, whereas, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, in contrast, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2391.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 422.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.66587677725 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16136924763 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53317535545 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.7420775916 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.625 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5833333333 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.123301978309 0.243740707755 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0420257540582 0.0831039109588 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489696134452 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0773945660504 0.150359130593 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447532608762 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.31 12.1639044944 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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.