It is often said that the subjects taught in schools are too academic in orientation and that it would be more useful for children to learn about practical matters such as home management, work and interpersonal skills. To what extent do you agree or disa

Schools are normally regarded as the place where the next generation can increase their knowledge to improve employment. While practical skills are useful that students should be taught about that, I disagree with the idea that academic subjects should, therefore, be replaced.

The academic subjects have a positive impact on people’s careers. To begin with, the academic knowledge that students learn in school lays the foundation for further learning of certain areas by helping them recognize their strengths and weaknesses. According to this, they can choose their major that either they are interested in or good at in the university, and deepen their study in the chosen path. After graduation, when they enter the workforce, they have been equipped with professional knowledge to compete with others despite the competition is so fierce. They can get a decent job with reasonable salaries, living a good quality of life. On the contrary, without this academic education, people can not fulfill their potential.

On the other hand, learning about practical matters also benefit students throughout their lives to some extent. For example, home management can make students more independent, and interpersonal skills will teach them how to get along well with others. However, these skills are not as important as academic subjects and can be learned from other ways like their parents or siblings. Moreover, students can not pay enough time and energy on core subjects if they have to make time for practical skills learning, which will have a negative influence on their academic performance.

In conclusion, although practical matters have some positives, I would argue that core academic subjects are more crucial to students’ careers.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44890510949 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74967727777 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583941605839 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 452.7 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.6770650488 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.846153846 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0769230769 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3076923077 7.06120827912 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191508184264 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759503723361 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0599046335867 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137856495201 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432932387661 0.056905535591 76% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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