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 s

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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.

“Do we follow our conscience”? In other words, it is widely accepted that people, be it from any field or from any origin, succumb to the societal pressure and put conscience to rest. Moreover, the rigidity and inflexibility imbibed into the learning processes also work towards suppressing the conscience. The prompt suggests that formal education intends to restrict our free spirit and force us to follow stringent rules. In my opinion, I would strongly agree with the view and would support it by exemplify that formal education by being a mixture of conventional rules and procedures restricts unconventional and iconoclast ideas, thus enclose our spirit in walls. The reasons justifying my view are mentioned in the next following paragraphs.

First of all, does formal education ensure the pinnacle of one’s motive and passion? As per the research conducted on famous or esteemed person in education field, it is shown that these people were not from any formal education system but rather followed unconventional ideas, thus made significant contribution in their respective fields. For example, the famous mathematician of India, Mr. Ramanujan was forced through several procedures to complete his studies in other subjects as well in order to continue his studies in mathematics. His scholarship was cancelled and he was demoted to lower classes for not getting the passing marks in other subjects. However, his spirit in mathematics urged him throughout his life and today he is regarded as one of main contributors to the application of mathematics in physical sciences. Moreover, the example of Mr. Oliver Heaviside also shown that how formal education intended to restrict his passion by not allowing him to attend schools because he was partially deaf. But his incessant desire to study mathematics, made him to address the question of why signals from England to Denmark travelled at a faster rate than those sent from Denmark to England. Therefore, formal education by being a system of fixed and unchanging rules restrict the mind and spirit to find something new.

Secondly, does formal education ensure success in business? Again, here, the research conducted on famous and industrious businessmen showed that these people are known worldwide and employ them who are from formal education system as assistants. For example, the founder of Microsoft, Mr. Bill Gates was a drop out from school because of his erratic ideas on computing and how it can help human beings to process large calculations in a fraction of seconds. However, with the advent of Windows by Microsoft, today everyone in the world uses the tool developed by Microsoft such as Excel, Word and Notepad. His unconventional ideas prevailed. Moreover, the founder of Apple, Mr. Steve Job was also a drop out from school because of his interest in peculiar calligraphy. In fact, at his address to graduates of Stanford, he found to be saying that “previous four years was a complete waste of time”, Do what you love and have the courage to follow your heart since it knows already what you want to become”. Because of his interest in calligraphy, we have access to Mac computers with unique and beautiful typography. Therefore, formal education intended to restrict the innovation and creativity which has a bearing in future.

Finally, does education support arts? Here, the research has shown that arts being a result of imagination and fancy cannot be flourished by being a part of formal education system. For example, today half of the world population is on Facebook and people are sharing their thoughts and views among themselves. It was created by following the errant thought of comparing faces of people but not by any formal education on aesthetics of beauty and features of facial comparison. Further, the Indian famous actor, Mr. Khan achieved myriad accolades for his outstanding performances in different movies and shows. In one of his interviews he corroborated that arts school does not teach someone to act but focus on following the best practices of other established actors, thus, restricting the innovation. Therefore, formal education has a tendency to follow the established path, thus, limit the potential of free will.

Of course some would argue that formal education tends to ensure success by leaving the spirit on its own. However, the proponent of this view must know that spirit gets limited or enclosed by going through the education system. Formal education can guide someone what to follow on the basis of past events, can inculcate morals and principles and can persuade someone to choose a lucrative career, however, it cannot encourage innovation and unconventional ideas because of this inherent system of abiding by the rules whereas innovation and discovery are realised when spirits are free to pursue anything a person wants. Therefore, while concluding, formal education confine the desire and will of students.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...tion and creativity which has a bearing in future. Finally, does education support art...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, whereas, while, as for, for example, in fact, of course, such as, first of all, in my opinion, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 35.0 14.8657303371 235% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 33.0505617978 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 125.0 58.6224719101 213% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 31.0 12.9106741573 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4189.0 2235.4752809 187% => OK
No of words: 797.0 442.535393258 180% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25595984944 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.31330296774 4.55969084622 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87344791356 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 384.0 215.323595506 178% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481806775408 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 1303.2 704.065955056 185% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.2370786517 168% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.1885502632 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.205882353 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4411764706 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 10.2758426966 214% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168914710698 0.243740707755 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0433639398957 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0341607411519 0.0758088955206 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0957462218774 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183411949275 0.0667264976115 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 207.0 100.480337079 206% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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