In some cultures, children are often told that they can achieve anything if they try hard enough. What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving children this message?
In many places in the world, a common lesson for children is that everything is achievable given enough endeavor. This essay discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this message and then give my own perspective, which is that the former outweighs the latter.
There are compelling reasons why telling children that they can realize any goal if they put enough effort into it is beneficial for both individuals and society at large. Firstly, with this spirit in mind, children will stand a bigger chance of being successful. For example, a child not being taught the lesson in question would easily give up on a seemingly complicated task in school. In contrast, one who grew up with the mindset of keeping pushing forward would keep on looking into the root of the problem and eventually sort things out, receiving better grades. Secondly, the motto of never giving up is an essential reason for advances in our society. Every great inventor or scientist was once a child with a firm determination and persistence, pursuing his objectives relentlessly. As a consequence, we would not be able to live in a developed world with the latest technologies if the message to children was not to push themselves to the limit.
However, instilling into children the lesson of exerting themselves until they succeed can be disadvantageous to a certain extent. If the goal is not realistic, then it would be a waste of time and energy to pursue it, no matter how much effort is made. In this case, a child can feel disappointed and demotivated, thus being skeptical in his abilities, and perhaps would lose all confidence later in life. Therefore, the message of trying non-stop can be counterproductive.
In conclusion, I believe that the merits of telling children that anything is possible given enough effort prevail over the drawbacks.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => 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: 1539.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02941176471 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96106023906 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591503267974 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.3014474465 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.928571429 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8571428571 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.274004194003 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0894264344519 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703749174457 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169046034998 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405698893866 0.056905535591 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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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.