Student should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
In the school, teachers will teach students according to textbook and their own understanding regarding to the knowledge, which most of the students will follow the teachers’ teaching schedule to learn, this is the most common way of learning around the globe. However, is that students should accept 100% content that the teacher told them, should the student always question on what they have learnt, the answer should be yes.
First of all, both the textbook and the teacher’s own understanding may not be 100% correct, even if the textbook has been modified for several versions and the teacher has rich experiences. Theories and knowledge in a field are always developing, there are new findings and corrections being introduced everyday, thus, students should be able to challenging on what they have been learned, especially considering that the teacher might make mistakes on the teaching activities. This challenging mind allows the student to think critically, which is significant for their future development.
In addition, question on what the student have learned usually leads to discussion between multiple students or between student and the teacher, such discussion is a process for them to exchange their own ideas and thoughts over the knowledge. Exchanging ideas is always a process that helps to learn a concept in depth, even if the class-taught theory is proved to be correct, the discussion can still enhance the understanding significantly for those who joined. However, some students may choose to do individual research on the content instead of discussion or seeking for help, this is also a good practice which enhance the student’s self-studying skills.
However, some people may claim that in common practices, at least 95% of the content taught in school can be guaranteed to be correct, this kind of question on the knowledge is a waste of time, student may use such time to do other activities that significant for their personal development. In my opinion, it is true that most of the content taught is correct, but, if the student just passively receiving the knowledge, they might get used to admit everything that they received from others, they lose the ability to think. Individual thinking is essential for one’s personal development. The time that students spend on discussing, debating or researching over their ‘doubt’ on the knowledge is the best way to train their individual thinking ability and critical thinking ability. Question on existing knowledge can lead to the development on the theories, for instance, because there are people willing to question on the theories and do individual research, the universe model is changed from Earth-centred to Sun-centred, which further proved that question is always necessary during the learning.
In conclusion, though we can say passive receiving the knowledge is the easiest and most common way of learning, student should still preserve their thoughts on questioning on what they have been taught.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'yesed', 'yessed'?
Suggestion: yesed; yessed
... they have learnt, the answer should be yes. First of all, both the textbook and...
^^^
Line 3, column 305, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ndings and corrections being introduced everyday, thus, students should be able to chall...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, still, thus, at least, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, first of all, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2546.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 478.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32635983264 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88311541142 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456066945607 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 720.0 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 34.0 23.0359550562 148% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.2729359604 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 181.857142857 118.986275619 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.1428571429 23.4991977007 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7142857143 5.21951772744 224% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348651429719 0.243740707755 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126119123817 0.0831039109588 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117997760418 0.0758088955206 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215852213847 0.150359130593 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688759023462 0.0667264976115 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.7 14.1392134831 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.8420337079 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.23 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.2143820225 139% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'yesed', 'yessed'?
Suggestion: yesed; yessed
... they have learnt, the answer should be yes. First of all, both the textbook and...
^^^
Line 3, column 305, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ndings and corrections being introduced everyday, thus, students should be able to chall...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, still, thus, at least, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, first of all, in my opinion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2546.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 478.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32635983264 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88311541142 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456066945607 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 720.0 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 34.0 23.0359550562 148% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.2729359604 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 181.857142857 118.986275619 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.1428571429 23.4991977007 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7142857143 5.21951772744 224% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348651429719 0.243740707755 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126119123817 0.0831039109588 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117997760418 0.0758088955206 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215852213847 0.150359130593 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688759023462 0.0667264976115 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.7 14.1392134831 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.8420337079 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.23 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.2143820225 139% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.