Education systems should focus more on imparting practical skills than on teaching theoretical knowledge.
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.
There has long since been debate about the focus of modern day educational systems teaching students practical skills versus theoretical knowledge. One school of thought champions the need of practical education such as construction, tailoring, cooking etc. Skills that are useful in everyday life. Whereas the the other, champions the need for theory because theoritical knowledge gives students the ability to apply what has been taught in the classroom to a range of different situations. I am of the opinion that both practical skills and theoretical knowledge are incredibly important in developing a well rounded individual who is capable of tackling lifes' unique challenges.
Scholars who champion the need for imparting practical skills invoke the saying " It is better to teach a man to fish rather than give him a fish, as a fish feeds him for only a day but the skills feeds for a lifetime." This is an apt argument for the need for practical skills however it fails to take into consideration other knowledge that is necessary to support a person. For instance, it is important that people understand the reasons behind techniques that they are leveraging and can tailor their needs in different situations. This is almost always best shown through theory. Borrowing the saying from above, you can teach a man to fish in fertile waters, under the best of circumstances but where tough times arrive, he is unable to fend for himself. This is where theoretical knowledge is important. It postulates different scenarios that a classroom setting even a practical skills one is not able to. Hence the need for both approaches.
Theoretical knowledge is also extremely important for non practical skills that people need as they grow. For instance, in my primary school we had a subjects like Moral Institution, Social Studies and World History that helped to explain the importance of values, community and the the world in ways that have helped immensely as I've grown older. The theory of these subjects helped to paint a broader world view that only practical education will not have been able to support. Imparting only practical skills could be detrimental to the education of students in the long run.
Practical knowledge is immensely important especially in todays world where it feels like people do more of talking than actual application/doing. However, completely switching the focus to only imparting practical skills is a dangerous road because theory such as Morals, Social Studies, History all contain information that is needed for a human to thrive
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 308, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...at are useful in everyday life. Whereas the the other, champions the need for theory be...
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Line 1, column 308, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...at are useful in everyday life. Whereas the the other, champions the need for theory be...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 493, Rule ID: EN_GB_SIMPLE_REPLACE
Message: I is a common American expression, in British English it is more common to use: I
Suggestion: I
...oom to a range of different situations. I am of the opinion that both practical s...
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Line 5, column 280, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...the importance of values, community and the the world in ways that have helped immensel...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 280, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...the importance of values, community and the the world in ways that have helped immensel...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, well, whereas, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2173.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1861575179 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87014249545 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501193317422 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.5131393521 60.3974514979 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.722222222 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2777777778 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94444444444 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.233263463506 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0726483513669 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417628017835 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141630430475 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0217913188125 0.0667264976115 33% => 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: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => 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: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => 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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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 308, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...at are useful in everyday life. Whereas the the other, champions the need for theory be...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 308, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...at are useful in everyday life. Whereas the the other, champions the need for theory be...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 493, Rule ID: EN_GB_SIMPLE_REPLACE
Message: I is a common American expression, in British English it is more common to use: I
Suggestion: I
...oom to a range of different situations. I am of the opinion that both practical s...
^
Line 5, column 280, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...the importance of values, community and the the world in ways that have helped immensel...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 280, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...the importance of values, community and the the world in ways that have helped immensel...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, well, whereas, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2173.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1861575179 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87014249545 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501193317422 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.5131393521 60.3974514979 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.722222222 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2777777778 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94444444444 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.233263463506 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0726483513669 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417628017835 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141630430475 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0217913188125 0.0667264976115 33% => 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: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => 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: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => 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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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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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.