Some people believe that the government should make education for the elderly for free. Others think that older people should pay for their own education. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of this proposal.
To suggest that education for the elderly should be free raises many issues and it is worth considering the advantages and disadvantages of this proposal. If such a scheme were to be implemented the benefits would be dubious at best, whilst on the other hand, the disadvantages would be more considerable and far outweigh any advantages that may come about.
It is quite clear that allowing older people in society a chance to study for free could have some advantages, but the key question is; for whom? If an older person was permitted to study for free this might grant them a chance to experience tertiary education that they might not have otherwise had a chance to attempt in the past. Yet while this might be of benefit to them, especially if they were unemployed seeking further work, or desired to attain new skills just to remain in work, the benefits may not be considerable enough to trickle down to the rest of the population. This proposal to offer free education may perhaps be best suited for a future time, when the effects of the currently aging population in the developed world, causes a severe imbalance in the ratio of the young to the old, which would require the elderly to work for much longer in their lives instead of retiring in order to reduce the tax burden on the younger population. Then, and perhaps only then, offering free education to the elderly might be advantageous for all concerned, however at this stage in time it is hard to see how it might be of any significant advantage to anyone or society, and may only be so for the elderly themselves.
When it comes to the disadvantages of allowing the elderly to study for free, it is perhaps much more of a burden to society than it would be a benefit. Essentially there is no such thing as a free education, when it comes to any valuable service that is provided for free as it almost always comes as an expense to government. This expense would then of course be passed on to the people and would in doubt add to the woes of any incumbent treasurer or financial analyst on the payroll of the government. "Free education for the elderly" seems like a wayward promise by a backwards politician merely seeking the next newspaper headline or to slyly gain votes in a marginal electorate with an elderly majority. It is not in any way sustainable nor profitable to allow such a continuously large proportion of the population to have free education. Not to mention the loud cries of unfair play when the public realise where else their taxes are being wasted. It is also difficult to imagine that any elder who were to commence tertiary studies, would likely be able to continue working for much longer and so it is more than likely that society would not genuinely experience enough benefits to the economy considering how many more years of work the elderly are able to sustain. Any well thought out proposal that is so well developed and deserving of complete financial support from the government, needs to be carefully examined and scrutinized to a far greater extent than the one line suggestion posed could possibly make.
It goes without saying that free education for the elderly, in fact for anyone, would be a luxury and of course beneficial to those that receive it. Yet it is without doubt that in such a fanciful and childish dream, it is entirely impractical and simple wishful-thinking as the cost would be staggering and the burden to society would go far beyond any advantages gleaned from this ili-thought daydream.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 620, Rule ID: MIGHT_PERHAPS[1]
Message: Use simply 'may', 'perhaps'.
Suggestion: may; perhaps
.... This proposal to offer free education may perhaps be best suited for a future time, when ...
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Line 5, column 1516, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...tent than the one line suggestion posed could possibly make. It goes without saying that fr...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'while', 'in fact', 'of course', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.17397881997 0.247107183377 70% => OK
Verbs: 0.151285930408 0.155533422707 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.124054462935 0.0946595960268 131% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0665658093797 0.0501214627716 133% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0347957639939 0.0437548338989 80% => OK
Prepositions: 0.116490166415 0.122226691241 95% => OK
Participles: 0.0378214826021 0.0403226058552 94% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71134114489 2.80594681477 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0574886535552 0.0326793684256 176% => OK
Particles: 0.00302571860817 0.00163938923432 185% => OK
Determiners: 0.116490166415 0.0861772015684 135% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0347957639939 0.021408717616 163% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0211800302572 0.011925033212 178% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3535.0 1933.35771543 183% => OK
No of words: 617.0 316.048096192 195% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.72933549433 6.12580529183 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.98392262146 4.20517956788 119% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.316045380875 0.374742101984 84% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.243111831442 0.28420135186 86% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.163695299838 0.203846283523 80% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.115072933549 0.137316102897 84% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71134114489 2.80594681477 97% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 176.037074148 160% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457050243112 0.56093040696 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 55.8723978689 60.7387585426 92% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0891783567 106% => OK
Sentence length: 36.2941176471 20.7743622355 175% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.8879035288 49.517814964 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 207.941176471 127.492653851 163% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.2941176471 20.7743622355 175% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.705882352941 0.814263465372 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.99599198397 50% => OK
Readability: 60.6053007913 49.1944974215 123% => OK
Elegance: 1.2994011976 1.69124875643 77% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34714753979 0.332605444948 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.165521232327 0.102741220458 161% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0853232772215 0.0668466124924 128% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.626502164582 0.534860350844 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.134424246385 0.148594505496 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.181821675652 0.134430193775 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0899873102484 0.0742795772207 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.56501035946 0.324371583561 174% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0871150003242 0.0638462369009 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284006910348 0.228012699653 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0321802136702 0.058150111329 55% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.68436873747 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.41683366733 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 5.90881763527 220% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.5751503006 39% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 14.0 10.4468937876 134% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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