It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
What should we teach students in school? Should they just know some basic information and facts, or they must know exactly where these facts derived? This is one of the most controversial issues in all education systems and almost all countries face it. Some people believe we must teach students ideas and concepts of everything, while others disagree and think we must teach them just facts and not concepts. In my view, teaching ideas and concepts is more important and I would like to elaborate my opinion with following reasons.
First, students can learn their subjects better, if they know the concepts. One of the main points in learning the subjects is to know the origin of the topic, and in this way, we can learn and keep them in our mind better and longer. When we do not know why we have accepted an issue as a fact, we cannot make any connection with it and even if we just memorize it, we will forget it in a short time. My own experience is a compelling example of this point. During my education in high school, we had a physic teacher who believed we must memorize all formulas and we do not need to know anything special about their origin and concept. As the result, all students in the class, including me, spent lots of times memorizing some formulas which did not have any idea about why we have accepted them as true formulas and rely on them for calculating all important problems we face to them in our life. This was one of the things which made physics one of the hardest subjects for me and that is why I believe, we must teach students ideas and concepts and if they are interested, they can learn some facts about them by their own.
Second, the concepts are more reliable than facts. Nothing is 100 percent in this world, and we cannot be sure about every fact we know, but it is not the same for concepts and ideas. Just by thinking about all changes happened to some facts we knew, we can conclude that even being sure about a fact, does not mean it will not change in future, while concepts and ideas are always permanent and that is why we must rely on concepts more than facts. To bring an example, I can mention to lots of disapproves which happened in the field of physics, and we all know that even some facts and proved formulas, which well-known scientists announced them, just disapproved by time. When we know that facts are not really permanent and may change by time, it must lead us to teach students ideas and concepts rather than facts.
To cut the long story short, all I want to say is that, based on presented justification, concepts and ideas are more important and reliable than facts, and teaching them can lead to a more efficient education system. As the result, my conviction is that it is more important to teach students concepts and ideas rather than facts. If students know more about concepts, they can learn more eagerly and keep all information in their mind for a long time. By knowing the concepts, students can also deal with their future problems better and these are all the final goal of an ideal education system we all want.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 336, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
... fact, does not mean it will not change in future, while concepts and ideas are always pe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, really, second, so, well, while, even so, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 9.8082437276 245% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 33.0 13.8261648746 239% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 78.0 43.0788530466 181% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2551.0 1977.66487455 129% => OK
No of words: 563.0 407.700716846 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.53108348135 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.48103885553 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32781831551 2.67179642975 87% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396092362345 0.524837075471 75% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 765.0 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.2773539537 48.9658058833 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.476190476 100.406767564 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8095238095 20.6045352989 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7619047619 5.45110844103 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => 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: 0.222646356136 0.236089414692 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0989176720788 0.076458572812 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.07829235119 0.0737576698707 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170943452401 0.150856017488 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576524835809 0.0645574589148 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 58.1214874552 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.29 10.9000537634 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.23 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 86.8835125448 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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