Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
The author suggests an educational recommendation, according to which students should be introduced to facts only after learning concepts or ideas, that explain those facts. In what follows I will argue that, while this recommendation involves positive aspects, such as an easier understanding of facts, it implies negative consequences. Among the others is the risk of a biased and passive education.
At first glance, the author’s recommendation seems convincing. Some people might support this idea by arguing that the complexity of facts requires a preceeding introduction of concepts that explain those facts. Consider, for example, human history. How could students effectively learn about this set of events, which can seem unrelated to each other? After all, what is the relationship between the Greek polis and the current political system? If the teachers first explains what is a democracy, it will be easy for students to relate the ancient Greek city-states to current America’s government by referring to the characterises of a democracy.
However, there are several difficulties. First of all, in history preserving the difference between two events occurring in two distant periods is crucial. There are significant differences between the democracy in Greece and in the United States: for example, in Greece less than one third of people have the right to vote; unlike the United States, in Greece there was slavery and all the power was in the hands of men. Second, there is the risk of teaching a biased history. If teachers first lecture about certain ideas and then mention facts explained by these ideas, there is the risk that students interpret these facts through the lens of those ideas. Such a lens could lead students to a strong misunderstanding of events. A third problem is that the creativity of students is not promoted. If students learn concepts explaining certain facts, they will be incapable of producing explanation by themselves. This will be a negative problem, since one of the main aims of the education will be not reached: developing a critical faculty.
It would be better if students studied ideas only after knowing facts. Of course, this is not an easy way to deal with a matter. However, misunderstanding of events is avoided and preserving the differences between facts is fostered. In addition, leaving students making their own interprations, despite their likely incorrectness, permits them to be mentally autonomous: an aspect that all people who follow an educational path should own.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, second, so, then, third, while, after all, for example, in addition, in fact, of course, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2155.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 405.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32098765432 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03462314991 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520987654321 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 653.4 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.7705343998 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.9545454545 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4090909091 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90909090909 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241909021339 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644887372693 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0789236290559 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158598834923 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449158496525 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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