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.
As the human civilization develops, people’s knowledge is always on the trend of fast growing. From the classic Newton Law to the Einstein’s theory of relativity, it is clear that those facts and knowledge are getting more and more complicated. To help students better understood those facts, some argue that before teaching those facts, teachers should make students understand the basic ideas and concepts as the explanations to them. I mostly disagree with such idea in the following two perspectives.
First of all, there is no denying that education is a process from the easiest and most basic stuffs to the harder ones. In elementary school, when students are taught maths, the four basic arithmetic operations are being told first, instead of derivatives or integration. Similar to architecture, the most important step in learning is how to lay a good foundation. And with such foundation, the new concepts and harder theories can be better comprehend. Thus, only with a solid basic skill, for example, calculus in maths, pronunciation in language and fundamental laws in physics, can a learner make further progress in corresponding fields.
That’s being said, sometimes facts are easier to understand than their explanations. The process of learning is usually a bottom-up process, but there is never a clear definition of the extent of such ‘bottom’. For instance, it is accepted that one plus one equals two, but such fact is actually hard to prove in a plain tone. To prove the fact need knowledge from the theory of number which is too abstract for the elementary school student to understand. It is those most simple and general facts that need complicated explanation and extra knowledge. That is to say, explaining too basic facts is another direction to the extreme, which brings out a key problem that what kind of facts can be used without explanation and proof as prerequisite.
Moreover, as the education level is getting higher, the requirement for the ideas, trends and concepts is not a must. For those students whose interest is application, computer science major for instance, the proof and basic mechanism are sometimes neglected, since they primarily need those facts to be useful in solving problem or optimizing pipelines. In this case, efficiency becomes the top priority. And for those students who are working on the cutting edge of science, facts are more of something to verify than something to learn. Neither of the two cases holds a strong need for the explanation of the facts.
The priority of the fact and explanations behind it, is a dynamic problem, which alters according to the education level and students’ age. For elementary education, prerequisite ideas are highly recommended. But the definition of what does not need explanation should be clear. While for higher education level, those explanation should not be obligatory.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 314, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this explanation' or 'those explanations'?
Suggestion: this explanation; those explanations
...lear. While for higher education level, those explanation should not be obligatory.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, moreover, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, kind of, first of all, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2440.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 468.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21367521368 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91657509014 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50641025641 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 735.3 704.065955056 104% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4814030913 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.666666667 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231945830268 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0627270219433 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0467067980363 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132542763871 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0501560601471 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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 9, column 314, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this explanation' or 'those explanations'?
Suggestion: this explanation; those explanations
...lear. While for higher education level, those explanation should not be obligatory.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, moreover, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, kind of, first of all, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2440.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 468.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21367521368 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91657509014 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50641025641 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 735.3 704.065955056 104% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4814030913 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.666666667 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231945830268 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0627270219433 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0467067980363 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132542763871 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0501560601471 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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.