Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Do students need to always question what they are taught? The speaker claims so. I agree that questioning is a great method to learn knowledge, while sometimes barely questioning may interfere learning.
First, questioning is an effective way for students to learn knowledge. In schools, teachers may always tell some facts and boring formulas and students only learn by rote. In this case, raising questions is a great way to help students understand what they learn and let teachers explain more about knowledge points. For example, if a teacher is talking about matrix in a math class, students can learn through asking what problems a matrix can solve, why we need matrix to represent numbers. In this way, students surely master this knowledge well. Otherwise, they may only remember that matrix is just a bunch of numbers and it is useless.
Besides, being critical and curious about knowledge is the source of development of science and technology. Being critical about knowledge is essential for our human. If students all passively accept what they are taught in class and take it for granted, creative research may be extinct and science and technology may stop progressing. Many tremendous scientific findings are derived from questions and doubts. For instance, Einstein did not believe things would be the same with an extremely high speed and he finally found out the theory of relativity; Copernicus doubted that the earth was the center of the universe and he proposed the Heliocentrism.
However, barely questioning would hinder learning in some situations. As technology developed rapidly and information accumulates with a high speed, sometimes a simple question may need a long explanation. For example, if a student simply ask why we can trust the answer of a math expression from the computer, he needs to spend a few days to learn how a computer works. In this case, questioning and answering could cost a lot of time and students should learn to accept some basic facts rather than be critical all the time.
To sum up, the proposed suggestion has both advantages and disadvantages. It should be prudent to put this theory into practice on case to case basis.
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- Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing a 58
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, however, if, may, so, well, while, for example, for instance, talking about, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 58.6224719101 67% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1846.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 361.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1135734072 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75874688709 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545706371191 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 704.065955056 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.8318086005 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.3 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.05 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169869224626 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0563622638211 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051815756332 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0987521356237 0.150359130593 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0462992219537 0.0667264976115 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.