College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs.
From the dawn of human civilization to this twenty-first century the definition and purpose of education has been changing, reshaping itself according to context and period. Earlier, education was primarily a tool to provoke thought, to impart knowledge, solve difficult mysteries of nature and convey the principles of religious belief. However, after the civilization went through industrial revolution and came to this era of technology the primary purpose of education has been to produce manpower needed to feed the industries. In this context, choosing subjects according to their scope in job market might seem plausible. Nonetheless, I think that education should be as it was in earlier times- a tool that provokes thought, that truly inspires you and not treat you like a product being produced by a machine.
In the present times, the world is seeing the largest number of drop-outs than any other time. The major reason behind this is that students jump into a subject because it bears a great potential in the job market and can earn them more in the future. Eventually, however, students find out that the subjects don’t interest them and only the economic incentive provided by the subject cannot hold them for the studies. Moreover, there is so huge competition on those popular subjects that students cannot compete and eventually abandon the education itself.
Doctor, for instance, is a major profession in Nepal. The subject requires a great effort and much more dedication. You cannot truly study the subject if you are not actually interested in it. Moreover, thousands of the most brilliant students get enrolled in the subject creating a huge competition in the job market after graduation. Consequently, huge number of students who enrolls in this course with only a good job as an incentive feels frustrated with competition and subject matter they are quite uninterested in. This has resulted in quite a number of suicide cases and even more number of drop-outs.
So education system should be such that students are encouraged to choose the subject that they feel interested in. Even if they don’t earn much at least that would reduce the amount of stress that comes with choosing subjects that you are not interested in. Many proponents of the above argument might question what is the purpose of education if it cannot provide you with economic security? However, students who choose subject of their interest can also have an economically secured future if they work hard in the subject area of their interest. There are several examples like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs who dropped out of the college only to study and work in the subject of their interest ultimately becoming one of the richest persons of the world.
Finally, the subject matter that one chooses should be interesting, thought-provoking rather than a banal discourse that manufactures you as a product for job market and it is almost sure that such choice of subject matter always has an economic benefit attached to it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nonetheless, so, at least, for instance, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2551.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 497.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13279678068 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7466329067 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476861167002 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 797.4 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2868852328 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.476190476 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.263828116327 0.243740707755 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0747309291296 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0645585650941 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143482603692 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0467889181478 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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