Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
In ancient Greek times, art had been seen as one of the most important subjects, along with mathematics and language. However, nowadays, music, acting, and dance have undoubtedly lost their stance as essential courses, whether in middle school or higher education. It seems that the schools themselves are discouraging students from choosing studies that may not yield results, especially in their future careers. Yet, I do not believe it is wise for educational institutions to take responsibility in affecting students' choice of study.
If the meaning of "success" is based on the possibility of obtaining a job through a predetermined field of study, students would look to education as a mean to an end, and in which the end indicates stability. Education will no longer be seen as an end in itself, as the pursuit of knowledge becomes the pathway to monetary gain instead of inner growth. Schools will become factories that churn out unthinking citizens who are dissuaded from learning for learning, but learning for success (and whatever that "success" means for the responsible institutions).
Even if educational institutions were responsible for students' field of study, they have no possibility of predicting which fields are the best in the future. As Sir Ken Robinson contends in his viral TED talk, we are unable to foresee what kind of skills the next generation needs to thrive. If that is the case, it would be unwise to assume one correct path based on past experience. As the world changes rapidly beyond our ability to determine what is best for our children, shouldn't they be allowed a greater range of possibilities, rather than a restricted recipe for success?
Moreover, let's say educational institutions do predict, through sophisticated technology of some sort, the fields with a higher percentage of success rates, students have their own free will to choose the field that is best for them. Though educational institutions can provide suggestions supported with analytic data to help students choose fields that can suit them the most, it is up to the students' themselves to decide which ones match their own talents and interests. If we were to push students with artistic talents to study fields that require mathematical skills, they may fail miserably or become more diffident as they are unable to showcase what they are actually capable of achieving.
It is wise to provide students with information about which fields may lead to higher pay or greater opportunities. However, I disapprove of educational institutions taking the liberty to sway students' decisions based on what they believe is "success." Education is more than a key that opens doors to future careers but to exciting knowledge that benefits the mind.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2354.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 451.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21951219512 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0879396069 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529933481153 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 725.4 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.3213851475 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.125 118.986275619 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1875 23.4991977007 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.125 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More 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: 0.328801781751 0.243740707755 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106327281081 0.0831039109588 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0944358111526 0.0758088955206 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181868969647 0.150359130593 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500048980648 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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