Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The word "formal" signifies the appropriate method or process for performing some task,as per the accepted social convention.The word when prefixed to any other word in the English language,has an overall effect of restrainment.Formal manner is the best example of this as it is the acceptable manner in which a person is expected to behave in an official gathering rather than being himself. The word formal has the same restraining effect when prefixed to education. Indeed,formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
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Sentence: Formal education makes its students study a number of concepts, facts and figures and tests thier proficiency of this knowledge through questions, which generally test the student's faculty of remembering these facts and a little on his ability to apply such concepts practically.
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Sentence: The student scoring higer marks is considered to be more formally educated.
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Sentence: Once again proving that true enterpreneurs and innovators can develop even without formal education.
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