The most important goal of education is to teach people how to educate themselves.
Education is always the priority for most countries. While some may argue that the most important goal of education is to teach people how to educate themselves, I hold an opposite view on this matter.
Admittedly, teaching people how to educate themselves is a pivotal and ideal goal of education at first glance. After all, we live in a world boasting the daily birth of new technologies, some of which make self-education easy, efficient, and enjoyable. To be specific, every student, with the access to Internet, can log on websites with massive open online courses like Coursera, on which he or she can learn from the most preeminent professors of the most prestigious institutes like Yale and Harvard. No matter what you want to learn, be it psychology, computer science, or anthropology, all you need to do is type it down in the search box, and then choose from the tantalizing results. I once studied a very renowned course “justice” from professor Michael Sandel, whereby I got acomprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of political philosophy, as well as important concepts like utilitarianism and liberalism. With these online tools being so useful and helpful, self-education has become unprecedentedly achievable and important.
However, to say that self-education is the most important goal of education is clearly an overstatement. The sad reality is, the aforementioned online tools are still far from being ubiquitous: in underdeveloped countries and area, access to Internet is still a luxury. For children in these countries, therefore, learning things from a computer or tablet is unimaginable. To make things worse, other sources of information and knowledge are also in shorter supply in recent years. Libraries, as an example, are being closed due to their unprofitability, and make way for real estate development. As a result, even if kids in these countries want to educate themselves, there is no way for them to be equipped with the adequate tools and means. How can a student educate himself or herself when there is no book to read? Without these tools, self-education is only an illusion.
Thus, a more important goal of education, as well as the very nature of education, is very clear: to improve the schools, and therefore give students better and more direct access to knowledge. Public school, by its definition, is the most important provider of knowledge, and it is in schools that students learn what they need to make ends meet or achieve their self-actualization in the future. To be specific, there should be a higher salary for the teachers, so that the current teachers are more motivated, and prospective teachers are more attracted; there should be more teachers in smaller classes, so that each student has more opportunity to consult the teacher about his or her problems; there should be enough training for the teachers, so that they can always teach the most cutting-edge knowledge in the field to the students, and they know how to help students with diverse characteristics and preferences; there should be more updated equipment and facilities in schools, so that students can have a more intriguing way to learn new things. Instead of listening to the description from teachers’ lectures about cells, seeing how a cell really looks like by a microscope will make the student have a deeper impression. These are the more important issues in terms of education.
In conclusion, teaching people how to educate themselves is not the most important goal of education.
- Do you agree or disagree Some people believe that video games could inspire young students interest and make their study more efficient rather than distracting them and a waste of time so young students should be allowed to play video games 70
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- The most important goal of education is to teach people how to educate themselves 73
- The most important goal of education is to teach people how to educate themselves 73
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, may, really, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, while, after all, in conclusion, in short, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 15.1003584229 219% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 13.8261648746 174% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 52.1666666667 153% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.0752688172 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2969.0 1977.66487455 150% => OK
No of words: 575.0 407.700716846 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16347826087 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89685180668 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13560732081 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 212.727598566 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490434782609 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 926.1 618.680645161 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 11.0 3.51792114695 313% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.86738351254 428% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.94265232975 243% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 121.805935612 48.9658058833 249% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 134.954545455 100.406767564 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1363636364 20.6045352989 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.86363636364 5.45110844103 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384170505552 0.236089414692 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15435422609 0.076458572812 202% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.209877252826 0.0737576698707 285% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.379323224491 0.150856017488 251% => Maybe some contents are duplicated.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.252234938402 0.0645574589148 391% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 11.7677419355 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 86.8835125448 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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