Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Deciding what to study is one of the most crucial and daunting things for a student. Many a time they get help to find their interest while other times they are made to take up the field which others think will be better for them. The prompt suggests that educational institutions should discourage students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed. However, this statement is unjust and I strongly assert that
it is a wrong thing to stop someone from following their interest for three main reasons.
Firstly, whether a student can be successful in a field can never be said for certain. The student might be bad at the subject now but can be good later on in life. For instance, let’s take example of one of the exemplary men in history Albert Einstein. When he was young, he was very poor in math and science and used to have below average results. He even had to drop out of school for the same reason. However, he pursued his interest and later in life he became outstanding in the same field and became one of the greatest scientists in history. Similarly, before being the owner of the greatest e-commerce company of the world, Jack Ma had failed many times in business ventures. He even was poor as a student and had failed many times in his school life. Had his teacher had a chance to decide his career, the teacher could have suggested against pursuing business and doing something easier instead. Then, we would not have gotten opportunity to witness such great innovation today. Hence, one cannot know when a person will take a U-turn in his life so, it is wrong for someone to say some other person to not follow his interest.
Secondly, pursuing one’s interest, even though he is not good in it can help the person discover his real field of interest or something he is really good at. For instance, suppose a student is really crazy about building houses but the student does not really know what the person wants to study. So, for the time being he studies civil engineering even though he is really bad at science. Later after a year into civil engineering he might have an epiphany and finally acknowledge that it is architecture that he really wants to pursue. After that he can pursue architecture. What is greater than that, greater than finding one’s actual passion. Had his teacher suggested him against taking civil engineering, he might never have found what he was born to be. Hence, one must not be stopped from following his interest, for the greater good.
Thirdly, following one’s passion gives satisfaction to the person and no one must be deprived of that. There are people would choose being mediocre and very satisfied over being really successful and unsatisfied. Also, success is a relative term and being unsatisfied is being unsuccessful for some people. So, for the sake of satisfaction from life, one must be let to choose whatever field he wants to pursue.
However, some might argue that students are naive and they do not know what they are doing and must be told what to study. Of course, in cases as such, when the students are unsure, they might take guidance but under no circumstances must a student be forced to give up hope on something that he really thinks might become his passion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 546, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “After” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...tecture that he really wants to pursue. After that he can pursue architecture. What i...
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Line 6, column 704, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...his teacher suggested him against taking civil engineering, he might never have f...
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Line 8, column 139, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to be'.
Suggestion: to be
... of that. There are people would choose being mediocre and very satisfied over being ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, really, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, third, thirdly, while, for instance, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2725.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 576.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73090277778 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46946961207 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444444444444 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 837.9 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0951471293 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.9655172414 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8620689655 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13793103448 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.106745497542 0.243740707755 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0384178388371 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0715225530962 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0755599996656 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.082652734533 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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