A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college

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A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

One major purpose of the education is to enlight students with diverse knowledge in order to cultivate their critical thinking ability. Stand on this belief, I disagree with the prompt and declare that it is important to let students immerse in different curriculums from an early age to enable their independent thinking for the future decisions.

I would like to start with an example of my own country - Taiwan. Though Taiwan now is famous for its democratic society, we actually have undergone a thirty-six years of "white terror", meaning the dictatorship control of the whole island. During that period, only one national curriculum was allowed, and all the students were taught about the importance of fighting with the communist party in China. Anyone who was close or prone to the philosophy of communist would be arrested or even killed. Therefore, it is not difficult to think that a particular generation in Taiwan has endured such a brainwash and lack the capability to question the authority. Therefore, from my own country's history, I know the danger of one national curriculum in that this curriculum can serve the purpose to help the government to spread the propaganda and fool their citizens, which I am always against.

Secondly, the wake of citizens in Taiwan actually came from the spread of knowledge or books that revealed the truth of the government's corruption and therefore led the protest that called for democracy. Hence, I do believe the power of knowledge come from the diversity of knowledge that can be shared and taught in society. In other words, when there is only one national curriculum, people are not able to broaden their understanding, sharpen their critical thinking, not mentioning to question the authority. Only when the knowledge can be formed and distributed freely, can people really awaken and think for themselves, instead of being cheated by bias information. The evidence is obviously shown from Taiwan's development. Taiwan has opened up the national curriculum after the end of the white terror and thus numerous curriculums are used in school to train students' critical thinking toward our history.

Additionally, critical thinking takes time to be trained, and most people's mindsets are formed in a rather early stage. That's why I disagree to deliver diverse curriculums until college, simply because it is already too late. Take me for example, I know the "dark history" of Taiwan from the elementary school and hence always bear in mind that democracy doesn't come with no cost and treasure the freedom that we have now. However, if I only knew the dark history until college, it may be too challenging for me to accept that my country has done terrible things to its own citizens and I may refuse to accept this truth. Therefore, it is pertinent to say enlightenment coming early is critical to people's own development of critical thinking.

In conclusion, I disagree with the prompt and take my own country as a vivid example to illustrate the importance of providing diverse curriculums to cultivate people's critical thinking and equip them with the ability to always think for themselves and question the authority when only one version of the story is shared.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, hence, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, in other words, to start with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2722.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 531.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12617702448 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80035803286 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8350725536 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497175141243 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 864.9 704.065955056 123% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.4614753376 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.1 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.55 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 5.21951772744 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
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: 0.122394080712 0.243740707755 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0393239534638 0.0831039109588 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0532370291209 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0689722277378 0.150359130593 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0369653015354 0.0667264976115 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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