Some people think that the main purpose of school is to turn children as good citizens and workers. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays, with the proliferation of quality education and skyrocketing development of technology, more and more people can be better educated. In terms of the school's function, some contend that schools are mainly supposed to cultivate good citizens and workers. However, I cast doubt on this statement, in that the main purpose of schools is to impart knowledge and it is the parents that should take the responsibility.
Schools are places where students absorb knowledge. It is universally acknowledged that teachers should impart the knowledge of different subjects, but most of the subjects are limited to basic ones, like Math, Linguistics, Science etc. These subjects can tell the students how the world works. Take Science as an example. It helps to explain how the system of the nature specifically work to sustain the all the living creatures. Nevertheless, the standard of a “good” citizen is that he or she behaves well and abide by the laws. Meanwhile, a “good” worker is someone who follows his or her duty and make contributions at work. Apparently, those subjects like Science are not intended to teach students how to become good citizens and workers. All these popular courses in most fundamental education systems are designed to make them more informed of the society, the world and the whole universe.
Furthermore, it is the family's responsibility to teach children how to become a well-behaved citizen in the future. It is well-known that children are parents in miniature. For most children, according to scientific studies, their behavior patterns are more likely to follow those of the parents or other family members, because children stay with family members for much longer time. Teachers are not who stay with the children for the most of the time, compared to their parents or other family members. Also, the children may go to different schools or academies as they grow up. Hence, teachers or other teaching staff are not to blame for the behavioral and moral education, if one of the students does not become a good citizen or worker.
As a matter of fact, there still can be some moral courses in schools. For example, it is very common in most primary schools and middle schools in Shanghai that students have to pass the moral and behavioral exams to successfully graduate. Even for tertiary-level education like colleges, the students there still have moral course, which tells us how to become a truly mature adult rather than to stay childish. Hence, we can tell that even though it is not the main responsibility for the schools to foster the children's citizenship quality, many schools are trying to make up for what parents may lack in their children's moral and behavioral education.
From what I have explained above, we can safely arrive at the conclusion that school's main purpose is not to make students potentially good citizens and workers, but to equip them with affluent knowledge that may benefit them for the whole life. Also, the main burden should fall on the family, especially parents, to educate their children how to become socially responsible, to behave well and to become a good worker.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, well, while, for example, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2649.0 1977.66487455 134% => OK
No of words: 522.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07471264368 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77997600958 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45785440613 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 819.0 618.680645161 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6518375683 48.9658058833 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.375 100.406767564 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.45833333333 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220254555633 0.236089414692 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659514373026 0.076458572812 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0588291044237 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142051980819 0.150856017488 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519581514945 0.0645574589148 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 58.1214874552 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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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