A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
In South Korea, there is a saying that the pedagogy is a plan of hundreds of years; the system of education always has been one of the most predominant issue, in our history, planning the future of each nation. To date, some nations have chosen to offer some extent of latitude to each province and school, while others are sticking to a national curriculum. I disagree, yet, with the given statement that a nation must oblige all students to follow its uniform contents, since it does degenerate the ultimate goal of education and demoralize prodigies, which may end up with deteriorating the national competitivity.
It cannot be denied that a uniform setting has some advantages, including the quality control, fairness, and the way of evaluating students. In South Korea, which may be a prominent example, there is a national curriculum with a strict qualification of candidates to become a teacher. This system does guarantee a minimum level of expertise of teachers in their subjects, who will offer a controlled quality of public education to students, regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds. Since all students are learning the same content, it is also very effective to evaluate them with a single examination, or Sooneung, which is held once a year. Entry into universities, based on the Sooneung score, offers irrefutable objectivity with the least chance of being affected by their socioeconomic status. South Korea, the epitome of a national curriculum, conspicuously reveals its benefits, since such quality control, fairness, and objectivity are difficult to be achieved with discrete versions of education.
Nevertheless, by enforcing teachers to offer classes of the same contents, which will be finally ending up with a single test, the ultimate goal of education may be easily breached: earning good grades. Take South Korea again for a prominent example. Mathematics teachers simply convey skills to solve integration problems quickly, rather than the veritable reason to learn such methodology. Music and art teachers give up their classes, and just leave the students to prepare for the coming Sooneung, simply because music and art are not covered in this exam. Students, in parallel, relinquish all except for Korean, mathematics, English, and some options, as their only goal is a fine score. Donors and acceptors are all inevitably violating the true purpose of education, which is to enhance the power of thinking. This compelling example shows that a unified form of education does not necessarily operate in good ways, as well.
Finally, evaluating students by a single criterion definitely dispirit prodigies of each field and finally hamper the spectrum of students. If an would-be-artist must be very good at mathematics to gain opportunities of art education at universities, many art prodigies might fail to reach there. If a potential physicist should prove his great level of literature as well, many students will be filtered out by the literature score. It is not difficult to deduce that forcing students, under the same system of education and the same standard of examination, will thwart the passion of young students to hone their talent and to become an expert in their fields. In South Korea, again, it is not difficult to see students deciding to study abroad for these reasons. Many preeminent pianists and violinists are all educated in the Europe, and they do not hesitate reproaching the invariable educational system of Korea. Hence, such uniformity definitely degenerates the expertise in each field, which will end up the diminished national competence.
In summary, the policy to set a uniform national curriculum should not be implemented due to the consequences stated above. In particular, this policy would deform the ultimate goal of education and dishearten students to hone their own specialty. Instead of focusing on efficiency to convey intelligence to and evaluate students, a nation should try its best to import some extent of latitude, flexibility, and variety in its pedagogy system. (646)
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 143, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...lly hamper the spectrum of students. If an would-be-artist must be very good at ma...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, hence, if, may, nevertheless, so, well, while, except for, in particular, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3420.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 647.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28593508501 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04343084457 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9849126163 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 317.0 215.323595506 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489953632148 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 1098.9 704.065955056 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 15.0 4.38483146067 342% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7136493111 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.538461538 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8846153846 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.80769230769 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211308304982 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0612541811056 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499808878583 0.0758088955206 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133652099022 0.150359130593 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340991907085 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => 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: 13.7 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 178.0 100.480337079 177% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 143, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...lly hamper the spectrum of students. If an would-be-artist must be very good at ma...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, hence, if, may, nevertheless, so, well, while, except for, in particular, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3420.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 647.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28593508501 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04343084457 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9849126163 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 317.0 215.323595506 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489953632148 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 1098.9 704.065955056 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 15.0 4.38483146067 342% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7136493111 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.538461538 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8846153846 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.80769230769 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211308304982 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0612541811056 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499808878583 0.0758088955206 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133652099022 0.150359130593 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340991907085 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => 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: 13.7 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 178.0 100.480337079 177% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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.