Nowadays students of all ages are subject to demanding everyday schedules, ranging from children in kindergartens to post-graduate students. It seems that the increasingly fierce competition among peers and the heavy academic burden make the situation inevitable and irreversible. Children have to spend less time on extracurricular activities. However, their busy school life may be a double-edged sword; it builds up their competence but rids them of life experience that can only be gained through exploring freely on their own.
To begin with, children can take advantage of their free time to learn things beyond textbooks. They include real-life experience and practical skills, which are undoubtedly necessary for individuals once exposed to society. For instance, I had plenty of free time in my childhood, so I learned lots of skills that are useful later on. In junior high school, we were asked to make a fire with lighters or matches. Some students were afraid, deeming it risky to get so close to a flame, but I showed no trepidation. Lighting a fire is undeniably an indispensable skill in life, but no teachers will instruct you on it. Such is the knowledge we can gain only from free exploration.
Additionally, we can realize what knowledge and skills are useful and should be acquired by doing whatever we want. Only being involved in daily routines at school may equip us with knowledge, but the usage in real life can only be acknowledged by ourselves. Little children tend to find putting one apple and another together interesting, so they are intrigued to learn basic math. I have benefited from various software for a long time, and that kindles my interest in pursuing software engineering. The idea that I need to learn this in the future keeps me motivated in further studies and research.
Furthermore, free exploration is the opportunity for children to develop distinctive characteristics which can define them. These features can sometimes help us stand out from other rivals. If several candidates are equipped with equal competence, their personal traits may act as a decider. Academic skills and knowledge can be acquired through practice and learning, but instincts and characteristics can hardly be cultivated. They are formed during childhood, mainly through free exploration. Without free time for doing what we want, people will all become identical, their unique traits having been lost unknowingly since they were kids.
In conclusion, free time helps individuals acquire practical knowledge, ignite interest in learning and shape their unique selves. Admittedly, schoolwork is essential for personal growth, but childhood isn’t meant to be all about it.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, for instance, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2281.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 429.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31701631702 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98341709188 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587412587413 0.524837075471 112% => OK
syllable_count: 700.2 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.2024419543 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0416666667 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.875 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41666666667 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172635903648 0.236089414692 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0470899045423 0.076458572812 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0428790320934 0.0737576698707 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.09821495735 0.150856017488 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039124317593 0.0645574589148 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 11.7677419355 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.28 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 86.8835125448 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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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.