Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
I do not think it is the responsibility of educational institutions to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed. Educational institutions have a duty to inform students about the different fields but dissuading them based on their own biases is unjust.
Let's take an example of India for this issue, being a poor country with an enormous population, the services industries do not pay well at all. After the internet boom, the software/engineering fields grew enormously throughout the world, jobs in India grew as well. These jobs were among the best paying in the country and hired only from the top most institutes. As a result, the parents and society in general, grew obsessed with top institutes, IITs to name one. Due to this obsession, the children are dissuaded in most cases to follow their dreams and rather forced in many other cases to follow this IIT dream. They are forced by parents to join coaching institutes at a tender age, they are dissuaded to follow sports and any other thing that might act as a "distraction". In many cases, they leave their home towns to join these coaching classes, follow strict study schedules and go through enormous amounts of stress and expectations. Many who can't keep up, turn to suicides and drugs to cope with the stress. Even the ones who do succeed in their parent's dreams of attending IITs are often not interested in engineering in the first place, and consequently, they end up being average engineers. This is precisely due to lack of passion, unless you have a passion for something you cannot get good at it beyond a certain point. Not to mention the physical incapabilities that develop due to this high-stress environment.
The students I mentioned were talented kids who would have succeeded in whichever fields they liked. Instead, they were forced to follow a certain path determined by not them but the society. Our society in general, follows a herd mentality, and is biased due to their experiences. The educational institutes have a responsibility to inform the child of all the fields they could pursue, the pros and cons of each. But it should be the child's decision since they are the ones that have to live with it.
No major breakthrough has been made in physics in the last several decades, does that mean we should dissuade our children to pursue physics? would we want another einstien to become a software engineer and develop some random phone applications?
Moreover, Students in the US have known to be struggling with college debt. There is an inherent belief that if you want a good job, you must have a college degree. Authorities recognized a way to capitalize this belief and college education became more and more expensive, to the point where students are not able to pay back their debts for several years after graduating. The situation currently is that there is a shortage of people in the services industry. Due to this shortage plumbers, housekeepers, electricians are getting paid more, they have no students debts and they can plan their lives better than the college educated kid with loads of debt. Thus dissuading some fields and pushing the other will only create an imbalance and would make the student's lives harder in the longer term.
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...at there is a shortage of people in the services industry. Due to this shortage plumbers...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, moreover, so, thus, well, in general, as a result, in many cases, in most cases, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2756.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 558.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93906810036 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85176526044 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505376344086 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 840.6 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9354013364 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4615384615 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.96153846154 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36665219945 0.243740707755 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0991583982285 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.16258307978 0.0758088955206 214% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257574838328 0.150359130593 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.233089220873 0.0667264976115 349% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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