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?

An ideal teaching system consists of bookish as well as practical knowledge. Though practical knowledge is more important than bookish knowledge, the importance of factual knowledge cannot be lessened. Some schools and universities focus more on factual knowledge than practical, which slow down pupils’ speed of learning. However, there are many others which embrace the practical way of learning so that teaching and learning could be fun.

As per the research conducted in recent years, it was concluded that the human brain is more responsive to learning from physical activity than by reading a book. As a matter of fact, children who were learning through practices were able to answer the questions asked instantly in comparison to those who were taught through books.

On the other hand, based on the above discussion it cannot be concluded that learning facts is a complete waste of time. At universities and schools, it’s not always possible to learn every subject through practices. In fact, there are plenty of subjects, for instance; History and Literature, which requires a lot of reading without any other alternatives.

Moreover, I only agree to an extent with the given statement. In my opinion, course structures at teaching institutions are designed by professionals by considering the requirements at the specific levels along with the maturity level of the students. Although they should keep working to include more practical sessions in the overall course structure, course books cannot be ignored at all.

In essence, practical and bookish knowledge go hand on hand. Students won’t be able to practice till the time they have at least basic knowledge of the subject which can be obtained by reading books ultimately. Hence, bookish knowledge is as important as practical knowledge and can be considered of equal significance.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, moreover, so, well, at least, for instance, in fact, as a matter of fact, as well as, in my opinion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => 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: 1583.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3843537415 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88616014863 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 176.041082164 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574829931973 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.8301808606 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.533333333 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.2 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174401644406 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592236990668 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356809147084 0.0667982634062 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0943299201315 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276236327403 0.056905535591 49% => 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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