Some people argue that experience is the best teacher. Life experiences can teach more effectively than books or formal school education. How far do you agree with this idea? Support your opinion with reasons/ or your personal experience.

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Some people argue that experience is the best teacher. Life experiences can teach more effectively than books or formal school education. How far do you agree with this idea? Support your opinion with reasons/ or your personal experience.

The importance of life experiences and school education, which was always debatable, has now become more controversial. The substantial influence of life experiences can teach more effectively than books or formal school education has sparked the controversy of the potential impact of this trend on the whole society in recent years. It can be agreed that life experience plays a vital role, though it has drawbacks. This essay will elaborate on how life experience can enlarge people’s life circle and how college education cultivates students' creative thinking skills, and thus will lead to a logical conclusion.

At the outset, there are numerable reasons why life experiences can teach more effectively than books or formal school education, but the most conspicuous one stems from the fact that life experiences enlarge the people’s life circle. As an illustration, I used my previous computer software work experience to assist my manager in a database project. Therefore, he thought I was intelligent in the IT area so he recommended me to attend some relevant events, which directly helped me to expand my life circle.

Nevertheless, some people adopt an opposing view and tend to believe that college education is more important than life experiences as there are innumerable reasons but the most salient one is that student’s creative thinking skills will improve during the study in the university. For instance, the research has invariably revealed that the Harvard University undergraduates’ creative thinking skill has dramatically increased by twenty percentage after they finished the final project report. Thus, the formal school education can improve students’ creative thinking skills. 

In conclusion, from what has been discussed above, it can be concluded that the impact of life experience is prominent, although the improvement of people’s creative thinking skills should be well handled. 

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...students' creative thinking skills.  In conclusion, from what has been discus...
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... thinking skills should be well handled. 
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, on the whole

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 6.10837438424 164% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 20.9802955665 105% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 31.9359605911 78% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.75862068966 260% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1663.0 1207.87684729 138% => OK
No of words: 295.0 242.827586207 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.63728813559 5.00649968141 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1950011228 2.71678728327 118% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 139.433497537 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55593220339 0.580463131201 96% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 379.143842365 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 12.6551724138 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 20.5024630542 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.0928669695 50.4703680194 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 166.3 104.977214359 158% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5 20.9669160288 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.1 7.25397266985 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.33497536946 56% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297671942086 0.242375264174 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135436706141 0.0925447433944 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0949693669654 0.071462118173 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185389880446 0.151781067708 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.094881175803 0.0609392437508 156% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.9 12.6369458128 157% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 25.12 53.1260098522 47% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 6.54236453202 199% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 10.9458128079 155% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.02 11.5310837438 139% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.32886699507 114% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 55.0591133005 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.94827586207 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.3980295567 131% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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