Life experience is better than books or formal education? Agree or disagree?

Continuous learning is one of the focuses of individuals and societies today and its causing much controversy and debate. Some say learning through books and formal education is crucial to learning. Others disagree to the notion and say that experience is sufficient and effective in learning. This essay will discuss why experience is a more effective and practical tool in learning and development.

More people nowadays are furthering their education in pursuit of greater knowledge and excellence. Moreover, these degrees and courses are becoming more unreasonably expensive. While I do recognize the merits of formal education, it should be emphasized that qualifications for most jobs can actually be deducted from hands-on learning experiences and training. In addition, these on-the-job trainings are providing much needed and relevant training to employees. For example, machine operators are benefitting tremendously from apprenticeship programs in preparing themselves to enter the workforce. They become more productive earlier than peers who were not able to get hands-on experience. Thus, experience is more effective in teaching practical learning and knowledge to students.

Nevertheless, experience-based learning is adaptive and scalable which makes it more effective in practical learning. This is something that you cannot do with formal education that follows a rigid course outline and assessments. Experiences vary depending on the needs of the organization and internships prove to be the most suitable form of education. For example, Ford Motors hire more mechanics that went through mechanic apprenticeships because of their advanced problem solving skills at the onset. This is tangible evidence that experience is useful for professional training and development.

In conclusion, this essay discussed why experience is superior over books and formal education in learning and development. Although formal education provides coverage, experience provides the depth and practical knowledge needed perform the work at various levels.

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Average: 7.7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 82, Rule ID: IT_IS[7]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
... of individuals and societies today and its causing much controversy and debate. So...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, thus, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.5418719212 171% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 8.36945812808 239% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 20.9802955665 100% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 31.9359605911 110% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 5.75862068966 382% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1769.0 1207.87684729 146% => OK
No of words: 299.0 242.827586207 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.91638795987 5.00649968141 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16144277459 2.71678728327 116% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 139.433497537 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565217391304 0.580463131201 97% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 379.143842365 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.6157635468 173% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 12.6551724138 142% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.5024630542 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.5467209851 50.4703680194 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 98.2777777778 104.977214359 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6111111111 20.9669160288 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 7.25397266985 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 6.9802955665 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 2.91625615764 240% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216211644128 0.242375264174 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0699514362204 0.0925447433944 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.066337482897 0.071462118173 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15114765095 0.151781067708 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596236232283 0.0609392437508 98% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 12.6369458128 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 53.1260098522 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.76 11.5310837438 145% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.32886699507 117% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 55.0591133005 183% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.94827586207 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.3980295567 81% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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