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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The most important goal of education is to teach people how to educate themselves.

With the labor-intensive economy giving its way to the education-focus economy, education has become one of the main pillars of the society on which the body of the nation is constructed; therefore, its importance has accelerated among different casts of society, as well. That what is the main purpose behind education has always been a contentious issue. Some people hold the notion that the primary goal of education is to enable people to instruct themselves independently. Whereas some have an alternative perspective and believe that education stands for other aims. In this regard, I stand with the former group for the reasons that will be delved more profoundly in the following paragraphs.

To commence with, teaching students to educate themselves can broaden their perspective and horizon since not every subject is covered in schools and universities. For example, students who are engineering majors are more focused on subjects that deal with calculus and mathematics. This can enable them to form analytical thinking. However, tertiary institutions fail to incorporate social studies in engineering students' curricula. So if they want to gain more information in this field, they have to go after that themselves, which is impossible unless they are armored with the knowledge and skill of how to teach themselves. For instance, I am an engineering major who is really into literature, in different genres of literature and great works of art. Because throughout my school years, I was taught how to study by myself, I was able to broaden my knowledge in that given field and pursue my interest effectively. Of course, dealing with those great works of art enlightened me and helped me grow as a person because I could manipulate different viewpoints that I learned through studying literature in my life.

Moreover, on some occasions, and especially at higher levels of education, the lecturers are preoccupied with their own academic research and cannot devote abundant time to students' teaching. Or in other occasions, the range of the information that the lecturer must cover is so broad that it is not possible to cover all the details in the class. Thus, in instances like this, when students know how to study solely, they will be able to reach higher summits of prosperity. For example, I had a hydrologic course during my master's study, and we had to submit a hydrologic model with SWAT software for its final project. The syllabus and material of the course were so much that they left no time for our professor to teach us the calibration of a model with the SWAT software. Since I had learned how to instruct myself, I was able to learn the program independently and ace the project.

To recapitulate, since having the ability to instruct yourself autonomously can lead one to broaden one's horizon and learn new skills which can come in handy in the latter stages of life or gain extra knowledge in a given field, it seems that the most important goal of education is to teach people how to educate themselves independently. Had it not been for this valuable skill, most eminent scientists could not have reached prosperity since depending on instructors can limit one's success and creativity considerably.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, for example, for instance, of course

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 52.1666666667 159% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2712.0 1977.66487455 137% => OK
No of words: 534.0 407.700716846 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07865168539 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80712388197 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92686504937 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511235955056 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 859.5 618.680645161 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.970496637 48.9658058833 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.142857143 100.406767564 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4285714286 20.6045352989 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90476190476 5.45110844103 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239833072224 0.236089414692 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.065608348167 0.076458572812 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0733707908843 0.0737576698707 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155256571305 0.150856017488 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0787383285024 0.0645574589148 122% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 11.7677419355 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 86.8835125448 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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