Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary school to universities, too much time spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Agree or disagree?

Education at primary and tertiary levels makes an individual a complete human being and equips him/her with professional and emotional skills. Moreover, it has been seen that the educational institutions has been following an age old curriculum where emphasis is laid on grasping facts as compared to practical knowledge. In my opinion, this holds true to a certain extent.

To embark upon, schools and colleges are still following the archaic structure to education where an individual has to learn theory in every class. Moreover, the assessments are also concentrated on knowing how well the child knows these facts. These basic concepts serve as a foundation for child's knowledge and are used to attain advance concepts thereafter. Likewise, the theoretical knowledge is a prerequisite for companies recruiting people and are considered as one of the selection criteria. Once an individual is selected, the company makes him/her undertake training programs which concentrate on leveraging the conceptual knowledge into learning relevant practical skills.

On the other hand, there are some drawbacks to only acquiring conceptual knowledge. As a matter of fact, not all children are good in learning of theory and may fail on this ground. Therefore, practical skills become very important in such cases and will help an individual to survive the competition. Another aspect of over-exposure to theory is that the children are restricted to use their own imagination. As a result, the analytical skills are not developed and this hampers the overall development. Therefore, practical skills can be used as an aid to develop analytical and cognitive knowledge and strengthen the thought process of an individual.

To recapitulate, the educational institutions should create a curriculum which should be based on learning of both theory and practical. This will help in complete development of a person and give him/her a chance to survive in this competitive world.

Votes
Average: 8.9 (3 votes)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, likewise, may, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, well, as to, as a matter of fact, as a result, in my opinion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1670.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45751633987 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07767499693 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558823529412 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.543814631 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.375 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.125 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.625 7.06120827912 122% => 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 : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130341991711 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0393619763732 0.084324248473 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418582131479 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0730936486137 0.151304729494 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0206450739001 0.056905535591 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => 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: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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