Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
We live in an increasingly complex world, an Information Age. In this era where
knowledge is key to survival, learning facts is very important. It is tempting to say that
facts are the currency of the modern world, and that students must learn as many facts
as possible. I disagree, and feel it’s more important for students to learn ideas and concepts,
so they’ll be able to truly understand and use facts.
Ideas and concepts are especially important in formal education. The classroom style of
learning requires certain study skills. These study skills are useful tools for learning facts, but
the skills are not necessarily natural. The skills themselves must be learned. Students must
“learn to learn,” learning the ideas and concepts behind education. Without first learning
these ideas and concepts, they won’t be able to learn facts very effectively. So learning ideas
and concepts is more important. Ideas and concepts are foundation to the learning of facts.
The purpose of school is to prepare students for full participation in society. To hold down
jobs and be part of a community, learners need ideas and concepts even more than they need
facts. If someone studies to become an airplane pilot for example, it’s not enough to learn
where all the controls are in an airplane and what they do. Airline pilots should have an idea
of what it feels like to be in a plane before they can actually be trusted to fly a real airplane.
Similarly, for doctors concepts such as safety, responsibility, and bedside manner are more
important than knowing every single medical fact there is to know.
While facts are important, it is skills and concepts that allow us to use facts. So skills and
concepts are the most important thing a student must learn. There is an expression “Give a
man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.” The
facts teachers give students are like the fish. The skills and concepts are like the fishing.
Students can’t stay in school forever. For life learning, they must be taught the skills and
concepts they need to learn, think, and act on their own.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 60
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 10, column 21, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
...ned. Students must 'learn to learn,' learning the ideas and concepts behind...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'similarly', 'so', 'while', 'for example', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.238738738739 0.229887763892 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.171171171171 0.158761421928 108% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0698198198198 0.0866891130778 81% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0382882882883 0.046263068375 83% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0472972972973 0.0685040099705 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0878378378378 0.118717715034 74% => OK
Participles: 0.0225225225225 0.0351676179071 64% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.69823414375 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0382882882883 0.0309702414327 124% => OK
Particles: 0.00225225225225 0.00188951952338 119% => OK
Determiners: 0.0765765765766 0.0887237588012 86% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0225225225225 0.0209618222197 107% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0112612612613 0.0139019557991 81% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2200.0 2387.08602151 92% => OK
No of words: 370.0 408.028673835 91% => OK
Chars per words: 5.94594594595 5.86048508987 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.48200974243 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.337837837838 0.338922669872 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.254054054054 0.251872472559 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.210810810811 0.174417080927 121% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.108108108108 0.112833075102 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69823414375 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 212.727598566 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.475675675676 0.524397521467 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.9625345498 59.2087087015 84% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6684587814 116% => OK
Sentence length: 15.4166666667 20.5533526081 75% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1487908754 48.84282405 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.6666666667 120.699889404 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4166666667 20.5533526081 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.375 0.644075263715 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 24.0 4.5376344086 529% => There are something wrong with the essay format.
Language errors: 1.0 5.54480286738 18% => OK
Readability: 40.8220720721 45.7405998639 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.35964912281 1.45489161554 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.468215368771 0.300154397459 156% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.158661228854 0.103427244359 153% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.134408414804 0.0752933317313 179% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.714897484901 0.497263757937 144% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.229245776453 0.151897553556 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.179046609248 0.114077575197 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103287408034 0.0781384742642 132% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.106395867699 0.336927656856 32% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0995783559776 0.067059652881 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180101673615 0.210909579961 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102739431764 0.0618886996521 166% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8870967742 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.86379928315 26% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.91756272401 224% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 12.0 8.42114695341 142% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.4623655914 41% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.75985663082 290% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.6433691756 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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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.