Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
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.
The claim affirms that students should persistently question those whose tutelage they are under rather than accepting ideas indifferently. I agree with the above assertion. As Albert Einstein said, “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Society cannot progress without some magnitude of dissent that is incompatible with the beliefs and customs of the day.
By completely obliging to teachings, students risk being ill-informed citizens. Students may fall to indoctrination with certain agendas that are morally corrupt. Take for example, Nazi Germany during World War II. Hitler garnered support by insinuating a hate-filled agenda motivated by racial supremacy. Even in schools, students were imbibed with propaganda. Posters that lauded motherhood for a certain race inundated the streets of Nazi Germany. Hitler’s followers bolstered his mission, which consequently murdered 6 million innocent lives. Without dissent, corruption and unchecked authority can lead chaos and destruction.
Moreover, dissent and disobedience may lead to reformation that enhances that rights of others. Take for example the Women’s Rights Movement. Women in the early 20th century were taught to be the caretakers of the home. Men and women lived in separate spheres. One of the first champions of female suffrage was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In the early 1900s, she hosted the Seneca Falls Convention in New York City. Here, Stanton and fellow suffragettes advocated for an extension of universal rights to women. They revised a version of the Declaration of Independence to state that all men and women are created equal. Stanton and other women were unsatisfied by the scope of what women could and could not participate in. This shows how rebuking contemporary beliefs led to progress for the better of society.
Furthermore, apathetic acceptance leads students to fall under a trap where history is often ascribed by the winners, causing groups to become marginalized. For example, students are taught that “Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.” Thus, the discovery of the New World and America began. However, America had many inhabitants long before Columbus and fellow explorers embarked on their quest for domination. The was a large city 8 miles of present-day St. Louis called Cahokia. 10,000 or more civilians dwelled here in 1100 A.D. This was 400 years before Columbus voyaged to America. Cahokia was well-advanced and a metropolis in its time. Unfortunately, many students are not informed of the city sitting in their own backyard. Thus, the winners of history have written and told their story of civilizing the Americas, leaving Cahokia and its advanced dwelling out of the question.
Some may argue that if students were consonant in education, society would be less divisive. While this may be true; however, this fails students in learning. Questioning beliefs in history, religion, mathematics, etc. ignite learning for students. Students are digging for the truth, and the veracity does not come about from absent-minded adoption.
Therefore, it is pertinent to the advancement and a well-informed society to partake in discussion and criticizing the motives of the history that told.
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- Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.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 a 90
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
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Line 11, column 154, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g the motives of the history that told.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2774.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.548 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98294887653 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608 0.4932671777 123% => OK
syllable_count: 855.9 704.065955056 122% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 35.0 20.2370786517 173% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.3172963963 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.2571428571 118.986275619 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.2857142857 23.4991977007 61% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05714285714 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.136242848889 0.243740707755 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0309843344295 0.0831039109588 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0276762748744 0.0758088955206 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0657171372784 0.150359130593 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271498372956 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 48.8420337079 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.32 12.1639044944 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.67 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 169.0 100.480337079 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => 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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