The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

I strongly agree with the first half of the assertion. However, I disagree with the same intensity with the latter part. According to me, it is of stark importance to praise one's good actions at the same time reprimanding for the one's that are not appreciable.

Everyone is different. In context of school or college teaching, when the student are not yet ready for the world it is of prime importance that we apply this generalized statement with caution. As one negative remark can reduce the interest of a bright student who would be a promising star in a particular field. So before praising or reprimanding it is important to understand the student and that they take the scoldings in the same spirit as they are intended to be.

School teaching leads to self-teaching. Even after graduating most people continue to learn and develop their skills and become self-learner. In this context too this statement does not stand strong. For instance, if the ISRO(Indian Space Research Organisation) had not learnt from it's failed attempt to launch a close-orbit satellite in late 90's it would have never been able to attempt another one. It is of stark importance, for a self-leaner, to pay heed to his/her mistakes to develop. While it is important to cherish victories, it is also important to not eschew the setbacks.

Moving from the spatial aspect to the societal aspect, take an example of a post office where thousands of letters are processed and dispatched daily. What would happen if the technical team does not maintain the system and thousands of letters are stagnated in the post office due to a glitch in the system leading to error in printing addresses? That would be disasterous not only for the employees but for the people expecting timely delivery of their letters. This can applied in modern context too. What if a social networking website boasts about its new feature but fails to notice a privacy bug in it? That would again be catastrophic.

In a society, we are dependent on other beings. The world is full of example of how small misunderstanding can culminate into riots or worse. A professor who has not paid attention to his mistake is most likely to pass it on to the future generations and the magnitude of it will increase if not the same. This chain reaction can be avoided by investing enough time to reprimand, where needed, and praise when the moment comes in younger generation as well as ourselves. Lastly, it also important to note the course of action taken to achieve a positive result. Getting away with not buying a ticket for commuting by train might have a positive outcome for someone however, from a macroscopic point of view it is detrimental for the society. Thus, it is also important to take a positive path to reach a positive result.

To sum up my views, it is important to pay attention to the negative actions and equally important to pay heed to the course of action taken to reach the positive ones. Thus, I partially agree with the authors stand.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 122, Rule ID: ACCORDING_TO_ME[1]
Message: This phrase can sound awkward in English. Consider using 'in my opinion' or 'I think'.
Suggestion: In my opinion; I think
...he same intensity with the latter part. According to me, it is of stark importance to praise on...
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Line 3, column 196, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...his generalized statement with caution. As one negative remark can reduce the inte...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, so, thus, well, while, for instance, as well as, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2496.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 521.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79078694818 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74755501184 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508637236084 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 783.9 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.1779238184 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.1428571429 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6071428571 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46428571429 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11900245535 0.243740707755 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0275824217298 0.0831039109588 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499286140471 0.0758088955206 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0680373605185 0.150359130593 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605030544403 0.0667264976115 91% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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