Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills.
Do you agree or disagree?
It is often argued that educational programs concentrate more on teaching theoretical courses rather than practical skills. I strongly agree with this statement due to some reasons.
To begin with, today’s academic subjects are usually limited to fundamental courses including math, physics, and chemistry. Students are often struggling with memorizing too much factual information such as math formulas or complex chemical structures, and they are highly likely to forget such data right after passing their exams. Although the importance of these theoretical topics in developing students’ logical and reasoning skills could not be neglected, there is an immense lack of courses which focus on the development of practical capabilities. For example, as a student of computer engineering, I have spent most of my time at university on learning courses such as ‘Data Structures and Algorithms’ and ‘Computational Methods on Engineering’ which have improved my mathematical skills instead of my computer programming skills.
I believe that teaching facts to students should be accompanied by practical workshops and experimental laboratories in order to result in better understanding of these lessons. For instance, if chemical concepts are taught through doing experiments, students will be able to observe and analyze the results rather than just making efforts to memorize them. Moreover, in this way, graduates will be qualified both academically and experientially to apply for the available job opportunities. As a result, the rate of unemployment among fresh graduates will decrease as they are not required to do free internships or take courses in vocational institutions to develop their technical skills.
In conclusion, considering the importance of learning practical skills, I am of the opinion that the amount of time spent on teaching theoretical subjects in educational institutions is more than necessary.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, moreover, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, of course, such as, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1675.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.81597222222 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.42596795989 2.80592935109 122% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614583333333 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.0223899854 49.4020404114 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.272727273 106.682146367 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1818181818 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.63636363636 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131647243088 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0490388234478 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0424813776859 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0934678291365 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0408180572766 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.1 13.0946893788 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 50.2224549098 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.3001002004 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.77 12.4159519038 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.24 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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