It is indeed true that certain basic knowledge is essential for every resident of a given nation, if not the entire world. However, I do not believe that the necessary knowledge is extensive enough to require 18 years of a person's life to be taught. Instead, the current system, where the grade school and middle school curriculum is common for every student, while high school consists of elective streams of studies (science, commerce, and humanities), strikes me as ideal.
The goal of education is to enable citizens to live out their lives in an informed manner, and to be able to perform their jobs adequately. It is also in the interest of a nation to preserve its culture, and to pass on knowledge of its history to the future generations, so that mistakes made in the past can be avoided. Basic mathematics is necessary in all spheres of life? the most obvious example being in monetary transactions, financial matters, and other pecuniary matters of interest. In a democracy, it is crucial for a citizens to understand how the government functions, and the value of their votes. A preliminary knowledge of science is necessary so as to battle the many sources misinformation, and archaic superstitious rituals and beliefs which may bring harm upon the society by hindering progress.
However, from my experience, this requisite 'common' knowledge is quite easily imparted by the age of fourteen or sixteen. Subsequently, children need to be able to make informed decisions about their future. They cannot venture into adulthood with nary an idea of what they would like to do in life. Given that one's intellectual capabilities peak when they are in their twenties, in order to make optimal and efficient use of those fertile years? for their benefit, and in interest of the society at large? it is imperative that they spend at least a part of their teens exploring areas that they feel they would like to pick up further on agead, in college. From this perpspective, allowing them to choose their own courses allows them to explore their areas of interest in greater depth. From my personal experience, the change of pace and increase in depth afforded due to the decrease in width of courses, played a crucial role in reaffirming my desire to pursure physics. Also, given that different colleges usually specialise in different departments, choosing my college depended heavily upon my exploring the sub-areas of science in high school.
Apart from this point, there is the issue of language. The central board in diverse and multilingual nation typically recommends a unifying or local language (such as English in India) as the first language. This is crucial and prudent from the perspective of people's future prospects in or outside the country. However, I believe that students should be given the privilege of choosing their second and third languages. These are not crucial for day-to-day survival, and should reflect what people believe they might want to do in the future. For children dreaming to emmigrate to Germany, for instance, it'd be useful to let them learn German, instead of regulating a nation-wide second language. In essence, one common, nation-wide, unifying, (first) language suffices.
The issue of sports is another important one: Since physical fitness correlates with mental and physical well being, it would be useful to make sports a compulsory course for all years of school education. The case for health education is quite similar.
Thus, I believe that certain parts of the curriculum should be compulsory at certain ages stages of development. The matter is highly subject and case dependent.
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position 50
- Some believe that local communities should rely on citizen volunteers for projects benefiting those communities e g organizing youth sports leagues and collecting donations for charity Others believe that local communities are better served when professio 92
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, thus, well, while, apart from, as to, at least, for instance, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 102.0 58.6224719101 174% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3048.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 599.0 442.535393258 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08848080134 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94716853372 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78476117011 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 316.0 215.323595506 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52754590985 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 959.4 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.2078338422 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.103448276 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6551724138 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.48275862069 5.21951772744 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143772525971 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.034289980095 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0275506713129 0.0758088955206 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0709095031772 0.150359130593 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0252079808598 0.0667264976115 38% => 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: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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