Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
I contend that a student’s school or college is not sufficient in motivating him or her to learn effectively. Personal discipline is important, and it plays a primary role in the learning experience.
In order order to highlight how personal discipline is a primary influencer of learning I would like to discuss the Marshmallow experiment, a classic social psychology experiment. This study recruited 100 first graders from the North American subcontinent. Each child was tested separately. A plate of marshmallows was placed in front of each child. The child was told to not eat the marshmallows until the experimenter returned. The experimenter then left the room. The results of the study highlighted that those children who demonstrated self -discipline, the children who didn’t eat the marshmallows till the experimenter returned, were the ones that were more effective at learning and performed better in academics than those who couldn’t resist eating the marshmallows. Thus this study helps draw attention to the fact that irrespective of a student’s academic institution, without self-discipline, one cannot learn effectively.
Another reason why personal discipline is important in learning is because it produces a more conducive environment for learning. The students who are smart learners are who perform the best are usually the most disciplined. They are organized, tend not to disrupt the proceedings of the class and study regularly and diligently without someone telling them to do these things. Consider students who are extremely intelligent but have no sense of personal discipline. They constantly talk in class when the teacher is trying to teach, try to complete exams through immoral ways and do not study regularly. Most often the educator will ignore these students and focus on the ones that exhibit considerable amounts of personal discipline. The disciplined students thus are the receiving end of the educator’s attention which results in a beneficial learning environment for these students. Once again, it is personal discipline that plays a bigger role than the school or college. In the scenario mentioned above the unruly and disciplined students attend the same institution but its their levels of personal discipline that determines how well they will ultimately learn.
While personal discipline is more important, sometimes in rare instances, a school or college can be strong motivators in influencing students with mental disabilities like ADHD to learn effectively. Such students are unable to control their emotions as effectively as students without this disorder. Even with proper and daily medication they tend to be restless in class, find it hard to pay attention, do not dress properly and are sometimes even prone to outbursts of intense anger. Such students also have a tough time completing their homework and studying for exams. Yet despite the fact that these students are not able to maintain a sense of personal discipline, some of them are still able to learn and succeed in life. This is primarily because of the conducive environment of the special schools they attend. They are given special attention by the staff such as extra time to complete exams, after school support and sessions on how to effectively regulate their emotions. Such an environment is a facilitator of learning despite the fact that such students lack personal discipline.
Hence, even though the educational institution one attends is important, if one lacks personal discipline, despite how good and reputed the institution is, one will be immune to learning effectively.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, so, still, then, thus, well, while, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3074.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43109540636 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10683105525 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484098939929 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 968.4 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3976997424 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.785714286 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2142857143 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.82142857143 5.21951772744 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204425581387 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.057054941198 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0473291700993 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119902871188 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0474278290634 0.0667264976115 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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