Should students be allowed to choose which classes they take, or should they be required to take the same classes as everyone else?What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach to education?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevan

Education has been viewed as an essential part of individual and social development. Some people think all students should take the same standard curricula, but the question is whether the students should be allowed to choose their interested classes or not.

Some good arguments in defense of standard curricula set for every student. Firstly, learners need a common foundation before they acquire more advanced knowledge. Without the opportunity to gain basic knowledge through courses designed for every learner, students would find it difficult to further their education. Secondly, subjects and contents of courses set for every student also help schools to better prepare a competitive workforce for the future. Students' own selections of courses may be random and purely interest-based. By contrast, the mandatory courses are collected statistics on the labour market and hire expects, which help to prepare students for the labour market.

On the other hand, some people argue that an official curriculum is not always more productive. Individual students have different characters and abilities, and students in different schools may have varied needs. If all the students in the same grade in a region or country are required to take the same courses and study the same contents, their potential is unlikely to be full achieved. Students may even feel frustrated with learning as many of the required courses do not interest or challenge them.

My own view that primary school students should take standard courses chosen for every learner because they tend to lack the ability to find out courses that will best meet their needs. On the secondary level, however schools should encourage students to participate in the decision-making process of designing the curriculum. Therefore, secondary schools provide their students with curricula that can help them to achieve their academic potential.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, of course, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46621621622 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74130373455 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574324324324 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.1684945775 49.4020404114 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.866666667 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7333333333 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.06666666667 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231920548777 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0770028296609 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076344583087 0.0667982634062 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160802508279 0.151304729494 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0687101819779 0.056905535591 121% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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