The best way to teach — whether as an educator, employer, or parent — is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Self-confidence plays a bigger role than one can imagine in reaching new heights of success. It is important for the people around to praise every positive step taken by the person in order to boost his/her self-esteem as it is essential for one to believe in their own ambitions before they try to convince others of it. However, neglecting the negative actions while doing so will probably do more harm than only lauding the positive actions do.
Consider a scenario where a tennis coach is mentoring his/her student for a tournament coming up. It is critical that the coach shows he/she confidence in the student’s capability. The coach could show it by praising every good serve, every good smash that his/her student takes. It will indeed encourage the student to display the same momentum in the actual tournament. While cheering the students on for their good moves, the coach with equal care, should point out their mistakes during practice. One cannot risk committing the same mistakes in the tournament. The coach should be fully aware of how costly it is to repeat mistakes which will not only lose the trophy. The student’s self-confidence could take a big hit. For all we know, he/she might decide that tennis is not her sport anymore.
Furthermore, assume the following situation in a corporate setting. Consider a manager managing a team of 15 people. Managing his resources is his job day in and day out. Yearly polls are conducted in the team to assess how the employees feel about working at the company. Now the manager may think by pointing mistakes of his team members, he will probably create a sense of general dissatisfaction in the team. He may speculate that that may lead to bad result about the company in the yearly polls. If the manager does not point out flaws in the work of his team members, it will affect the project results adversely. Consequently, the company will not be able to deliver its best to its customers. This will lead to revenue loss, pay cuts, decreased salaries for new hires to name just a few unfavorable results.
Parents are the first tutors for any kid before they step out into the real world. It is incumbent on parents to teach their kids to live by their morals and never deviate from them. Who better than parents will teach their kids to discern good and bad? Without being able to differentiate between ethical and unethical, the child will continue to do bad if not corrected immediately. To illustrate, imagine a mother taking her son to a park on a fine evening. There will be plenty of other kids in the same park. A small quarrel between her son and one other boy could blow up into a fist-fight unexpectedly. In the heat of the moment, her son might punch the boy. Needless to say, if the punch landed hard enough, the boy could be bleeding profusely. Now isn’t it the mother’s responsibility to correct her son’s mistake to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen the next day again? If she is blinded by her parental love and the kid is not told that it is wrong to punch someone else, he’ll continue to think that it is probably fine to hit people to get his way. We wouldn’t the child to grow into a bully in his school or worse, a mafia gangster later in his life, would we?
That being said, the best way to teach – whether as an educator, employer or parent – is not to simply praise the positive actions but also impartially address the negative ones and offer a counter action that can correct them.
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- Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated. 58
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- Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying. 66
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college 50
- Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archa 55
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 431, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
...isfaction in the team. He may speculate that that may lead to bad result about the compan...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.4196629213 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 33.0505617978 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2917.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 619.0 442.535393258 140% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.71243941842 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.98795655647 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63134412561 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 315.0 215.323595506 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508885298869 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 897.3 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.8515110036 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.7941176471 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2058823529 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.11764705882 5.21951772744 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129806479558 0.243740707755 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0286395553314 0.0831039109588 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0814007866996 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128348128268 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.170857870954 0.0667264976115 256% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.1392134831 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 48.8420337079 144% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 12.1743820225 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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