The first step to self-knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
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 issue that in order to teach ourselves or learn new things on our own we should reject the familiar things is a contentious one. Though both sides has it's strengths and weaknesses, I believe that looking at the other side of the perspective will always help us in learning something new.
Firstly, there is a famous saying "Think outside the box". This means we should always think of innovative ways of doing our quotidian work. Self-knowledge is that which we learn by ourselves either by pragmatically performing some experiment or by observation. When we bring some changes in the usual way of a process, whether it is a success or a failure, it will always lead to increase in our knowledge of understanding that process. This is because if the experiment is a success we can adapt that process and if it is a failure the reason why it failed also helps to gain knowledge.
Secondly, lets take an example of a school of deaf and blind children. If this school would teach the children by the same normal way by which normal children are taught, these handicapped children would never understand and would not progress. Thus they have to do some changes in the way of teaching. For example, for blind children the use of Braille learning and for deaf children the use of various gestures would help them in making their learning easy. Also these type of learning were brought about by someone who thought in a different way.
To add to this, if we see around us the great inventions, these inventions would not have been known to us if the inventors did not think in an unusual way. If Isaac Newton did not dig deep into why the apple fell on him, he would never conclude about the gravitational force. If Thomas Edison would have not racked his brains, there would be no invention of a bulb.Also if Graham Bell would have not invented the telephone, we would not be able to stay in touch with our closed ones.
But there is another side to it, we cannot completely reject the familiar things around us. These familiar things might give us new ideas which can lead to unfamiliar inventions. Also with the help the common known things we can develop something which we are not aware of till date.
In conclusion, I would say in order to augment our knowledge we should always look around and think with a different mindset. It is said that "curiosity leads to innovation". The more we try to find out stuff on our own and not blindly believe to what is presented to us, the more knowledge we gain. For these reasons I agree that the first step to self knowledge is rejection of the familiar.
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Suggestion: Also,
...elp them in making their learning easy. Also these type of learning were brought abo...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a different way" with adverb for "different"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...re brought about by someone who thought in a different way. To add to this, if we see around us...
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Suggestion: Also
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'look', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'thus', 'for example', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.197292069632 0.240241500013 82% => OK
Verbs: 0.16247582205 0.157235817809 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0676982591876 0.0880659088768 77% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0541586073501 0.0497285424764 109% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0812379110251 0.0444667217837 183% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.123791102515 0.12292977631 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0290135396518 0.0406280797675 71% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.65274974161 2.79330140395 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0309477756286 0.030933414821 100% => OK
Particles: 0.00193423597679 0.0016655270985 116% => OK
Determiners: 0.106382978723 0.0997080785238 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0406189555126 0.0249443105267 163% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0174081237911 0.0148568991511 117% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2628.0 2732.02544248 96% => OK
No of words: 467.0 452.878318584 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62740899358 6.0361032391 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.284796573876 0.366273622748 78% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.20556745182 0.280924506359 73% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.149892933619 0.200843997647 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.10278372591 0.132149295362 78% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65274974161 2.79330140395 95% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 219.290929204 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488222698073 0.48968727796 100% => OK
Word variations: 55.7059600243 55.4138127331 101% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.2272727273 23.380412469 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9552265103 59.4972553346 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.454545455 141.124799967 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2272727273 23.380412469 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.545454545455 0.674092028746 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.21349557522 134% => OK
Readability: 41.7840179093 51.4728631049 81% => OK
Elegance: 1.17532467532 1.64882698954 71% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.40514548563 0.391690518653 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10935730563 0.123202303941 89% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0789760328369 0.077325440228 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.550065393987 0.547984918172 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.1362767164 0.149214159877 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15645915686 0.161403998019 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0882443760446 0.0892212321368 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.25876705183 0.385218514788 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0345244926553 0.0692045440612 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258873146045 0.275328986314 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605775215443 0.0653680567796 93% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.