Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary school to universities, too much time spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Agree or disagree?

Recently, there have been passionate discussions among people about the contents of curriculum at school as well as the universities. It is thought that the time allocated to practical lessons and skills are not enough and so students waste their precious time on learning facts without having opportunity to put their knowledge into getting experience and practicing. As I totally agree with the issue, more explanation will be put forward.

First of all, I think children at school are not courageous enough to be involved in experiencing the life. They prefer to have some books and papers in front of them to memorize. There are lots of facts and technical jargon in their books which are explained to them by teachers directly and they just think it is enough to keep them all in mind. Of course, it is not their fault. It has become their attitude as their parents just think about their marks and they are always judging students according to their scores.

Likewise, in the universities when students start their education, it is unusual for them to change their attitudes. Not only is it important for them to spend time on learning practical skills along with theoretical aspects, but also it is vital for universities and other vocational centers as well as the society to provide an opportunity for students to use their knowledge in related markets to gain substantial experience.

In general, as there are lots of students applying for unrelated jobs, and as there are some people at work who can not use their knowledge correctly, it should be said that there is an important problem in the system. If we want to have creative workforce, there should be a balanced approach in educational system instead of concentration on boosting students' minds with useless formulas.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, likewise, so, well, i think, in general, of course, as well as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1495.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98333333333 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74714194917 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.523333333333 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.0 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.118193905 49.4020404114 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.583333333 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.16666666667 7.06120827912 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140671214035 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525840285543 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456780184864 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0881219972478 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0573329773217 0.056905535591 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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