Claim: Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience.
Reason: People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes.
For an individual a valuable asset is something that benefits him tangibly or intellectually. Imagination is the ability of mind to form ideas, image and concept of the object not present to the senses. Experience on the other hand, is to undergo through various circumstances and observations. The statement contends that sometime imagination can prove to be a more valuable asset than experience because people lacking experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes. While the statement is true that imagination can prove to be more useful in certain circumstances, one must not go too far in overstating its importance with respect to experience.
Admittedly, when individuals are let free to imagine without the constraints of established principles and norms, they can do wonders. Many historical accomplishments are testament to this fact. Genghiz Khan’s army commander Subutai’s feat of conquering thirty two nations and winning sixty five pitched battles can be a glaring example to illustrate how valuable imagination can be. Using his sheer imaginative force he devised unthinkable military strategy of coordinating large chunk of Mongolian armies hundreds of miles apart without any communication to converge at decisive moments and surprise the enemy forces. Till 800 years this strategy remained relevant and was employed by the Soviet army in the World War II.
Additionally, there are certain professions where imagination has precedence over other skills such as theoretical physics, music, literature, etc. What does one need to postulate the great theory of relativity? Surprisingly, a pencil, a piece of paper and most importantly young Einstein’s imagination- which knew no boundaries - were the requisites. Similarly, in literature, Shakespeare’s magnum opuses were a product of his creativity. Or, in music, imagination played the key role for many composers who enjoyed instant success with their vey first albums.
However, in many instances, experience reaps its own benefits. It trains individuals to keep their calm in panic situations. For example, an experience pilot would be in a better position to veer off the flight when in danger. Or an experienced football team is more likely to hold its nerve in the dying moments of a championship final. Moreover, as the adage goes ‘every man becomes wise after it’s late’, experience teaches to learn from past mistakes. It was experience from the destruction of world wars that prompted world leaders to establish UN and sign Geneva conventions. On the contrary, Hitler’s reckless imagination of ‘Aryan supremacy’ proved catastrophic for Germany as well as the whole world.
More often than not, it is the combination of imagination and experience that proves to be the most valuable asset for humans. For instance, in any team whether business or sports, while young members bring creativity to the table, the more experienced ones can balance the approach to minimize the risks. Myriad scientific and historical achievements also bear witness to this fact. While Da Vinci’s imagination gave birth to the smiling and appealing Mona Lisa, it was his experience as an artist that executed that idea on canvas. Similarly, while Edison imagined about lightening the world, it was his experience from trials and errors that revealed him tungsten to be the final piece of his puzzle.
In conclusion, while the statement is correct in asserting that in many instances and professions, imagination proves to be more valuable than experience, however it is not always true. Experience benefits in own ways and cannot be underestimated as such. Finally, in most of the times, it is the combination of experience and imagination that has served as the most valuable asset to the mankind.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 712, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... importance with respect to experience. Admittedly, when individuals are let fre...
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Line 5, column 564, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nt success with their vey first albums. However, in many instances, experience r...
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Line 7, column 429, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'learning'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'teach' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: learning
...se after it’s late’, experience teaches to learn from past mistakes. It was experience f...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, similarly, so, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on the contrary, with respect to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 39.0 12.9106741573 302% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3249.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 601.0 442.535393258 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40599001664 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95129289623 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11232961342 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 334.0 215.323595506 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555740432612 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 1027.8 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7305981525 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.3 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0333333333 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392234476901 0.243740707755 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914653595395 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119479088642 0.0758088955206 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205879898477 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111558289245 0.0667264976115 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 174.0 100.480337079 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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 712, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... importance with respect to experience. Admittedly, when individuals are let fre...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 564, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nt success with their vey first albums. However, in many instances, experience r...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 429, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'learning'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'teach' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: learning
...se after it’s late’, experience teaches to learn from past mistakes. It was experience f...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, similarly, so, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on the contrary, with respect to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 39.0 12.9106741573 302% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3249.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 601.0 442.535393258 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40599001664 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95129289623 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11232961342 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 334.0 215.323595506 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555740432612 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 1027.8 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7305981525 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.3 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0333333333 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.392234476901 0.243740707755 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914653595395 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119479088642 0.0758088955206 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205879898477 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111558289245 0.0667264976115 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 174.0 100.480337079 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.