Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
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.
I agree that it is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. It holds true for most of the fields of study. Just learning facts can improve upon your theoretical knowledge whereas a proper understanding can improve both your theoretical knowledge and the ability to draw upon them to solve the problems and improve the field via new discoveries and innovations.
When a student just learns the facts, most often than not he is just using his ability to memorise the fact. If he continues the same way throughout his learning career, the number of facts just keep on building up and his memory ability will saturate to a point where he is unable to learn more without forgetting some that he has already learnt previously. Also, without regular periods of trying to remember, he might start to forget the points he has learnt in the past. After all not all students has a photographic memory. Finally, without understanding, the students cannot be incisive enough to utilise them in the proper way in the field as he will be unable to map the scenarios with what is known to him.
On the other hand, if the student understands the ideas and concepts without solely trying to memorise them, he'll be able to garner more knowledge. He can try to remember some of the key, cornerstone points and try to use his understanding to derive at a solution appropriate to the situation. With the help of this, the student can move on to learn advanced topics and also succeed as his mind will feel less cluttered.
As a computer science student, I have first hand witnessed the negative impacts of just memorising facts. In this field, it is most important to have the logical ability to understand the problem statement and solve it appropriately by writing a program utilizing the instructions of a programming language. Students who just remembered the facts, did well in their theory exams while struggled in the lab exams. In contrast, the students who were able to understand the concepts did well in both. In addition to this, the former students in turn struggled in their jobs as well and could not reach higher positions quickly enough, if they ever did. Whereas the latter students indeed succeed in their careers with their abilities and garnered fame and respect in their fields.
Thus with the above viewpoints and examples, I would like to assert again that understanding ideas and concepts is much more important than to just learn and remember facts. But I would also like to point out that even though the latter is less important, it is still important enough to be not neglected and should be improved upon by the students. Only with the perfect combination of both can the key to success be manufactured.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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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.
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Message: Did you mean 'he'll'?
Suggestion: he'll
...without solely trying to memorise them, hell be able to garner more knowledge. He ca...
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... more knowledge. He can try to remember some of the key, cornerstone points and try to use ...
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Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'understanding deriving'.
Suggestion: understanding deriving
..., cornerstone points and try to use his understanding to derive at a solution appropriate to the situat...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ed fame and respect in their fields. Thus with the above viewpoints and examples,...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, so, still, thus, well, whereas, while, after all, in addition, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 52.1666666667 144% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2300.0 1977.66487455 116% => OK
No of words: 480.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79166666667 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66378750821 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46875 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 691.2 618.680645161 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2364010413 48.9658058833 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.0 100.406767564 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.6045352989 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2 5.45110844103 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269586129952 0.236089414692 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.092117703196 0.076458572812 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114770789512 0.0737576698707 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159735143975 0.150856017488 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0798023181386 0.0645574589148 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.