The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
I do agree with the view in this statement that the positive should be praised while I cannot actually fully accept the “all-or-nothing” perspective since I don’t deem that all negative behaviors could be ignored.
At the first glance at this statement, the former part of it cuts a reasonable figure. Certainly, to praise the good things is an effective and valuable way to educate. The reason lies in the psychology that every people wants to get acceptance from others. Children will gain delight from some admirable remarks from their friends, let alone how proud they will be if they get praising feedback from those in authority. Hence, if positive comments are given to students when they do good things, they might realize that to do those things means to be a nice people who will get respect. Students, therefore, will continue doing desirable things. As a result, agreeable properties such as friendliness, confidence and self-reliance would prosper in a group because they are encouraged by the teacher. Finally, the goal of education is achieved. Isn’t exactly the aim of education to cultivate those merits into the youth? That’s why to say that praising the positive actions is “the best way” to some extent.
In reference to the latter of the statement, however, I cannot stand by it without reservation through scrutiny. The rationale of ignoring negative actions is contingent. In cases that the negative actions mentioned are insignificant, to ignore them is the right thing to do. Whereas when those negative things are serious ones, ignoring misbehaviors could be counterproductive. As for the former, actions such as making noises in class could surely be ignored, since students behaving like this are usually seeking for teachers’ attention. If the teacher does not care them, they may feel frustrated thus stop. Should the teacher criticize them on the contrary, they might feel as a winner and repeat the actions. Hence, on this occasion not to give the actions attention is the better choice. However, when the latter, including cheating in the exams, stealing and bully, happens, the teacher is responsible to punish the misbehaviors. It is for the reason that those actions cost much that the teacher should never show negligence. If the teacher does not regulate those actions, the students who obey the rule all the time and those whose interest are damaged would feel hurt. Plus, negligence might indicate an irresponsibility of the leader and an ineffectiveness of the rule. As a consequence, nobody wants to trust the teacher as well as obey the principle. How could we talk about education if the educator has no authority? Only if the teacher strictly punishes the misbehaviors and comfort the victims could everybody know the serious consequences of disobeying the rule. In this way those who do negative actions could correct themselves, while those behaving themselves constantly would continue their merit.
To sum up, I cannot agree more that praising positive actions is the best way to teach. However, whether should the teacher ignore the misbehaviors depends on the seriousness of the actions. The statement is claimed to the extreme, thus modifying the expression in a conditional way when it comes to negative actions will enhance it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider replacing "in a conditional way" with adverb for "conditional"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... extreme, thus modifying the expression in a conditional way when it comes to negative actions will ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'whereas', 'while', 'as for', 'such as', 'as a result', 'as well as', 'on the contrary', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.208931419458 0.240241500013 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.165869218501 0.157235817809 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.066985645933 0.0880659088768 76% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0430622009569 0.0497285424764 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0398724082935 0.0444667217837 90% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108452950558 0.12292977631 88% => OK
Participles: 0.03668261563 0.0406280797675 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.9978870325 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.030303030303 0.030933414821 98% => OK
Particles: 0.00159489633174 0.0016655270985 96% => OK
Determiners: 0.133971291866 0.0997080785238 134% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0398724082935 0.0249443105267 160% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0191387559809 0.0148568991511 129% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3329.0 2732.02544248 122% => OK
No of words: 536.0 452.878318584 118% => OK
Chars per words: 6.21082089552 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.386194029851 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.315298507463 0.280924506359 112% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.225746268657 0.200843997647 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.130597014925 0.132149295362 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9978870325 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 219.290929204 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494402985075 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 59.1484776064 55.4138127331 107% => OK
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6194690265 145% => OK
Sentence length: 17.8666666667 23.380412469 76% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5940471826 59.4972553346 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.966666667 141.124799967 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8666666667 23.380412469 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.633333333333 0.674092028746 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 49.3965174129 51.4728631049 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.42307692308 1.64882698954 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.445715499432 0.391690518653 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.106785696597 0.123202303941 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0707383090487 0.077325440228 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.47589212841 0.547984918172 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.181862276893 0.149214159877 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159196974882 0.161403998019 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119001085765 0.0892212321368 133% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.484880898611 0.385218514788 126% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.161139789135 0.0692045440612 233% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.315810666962 0.275328986314 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.144836742809 0.0653680567796 222% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.30420353982 245% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 3.66592920354 273% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 13.5995575221 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Minimum three arguments wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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