Philosophical discussions of the educational system of society raise an order of importance for educational strategies on students. One of the most controversial comparisons in the topic is that understanding ideas and concepts is more important than learning facts for students. I agree with the statement, and in my humble opinion, from a similar perspective of an ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates, students should understand ideas and concepts rather than learn facts.
Firstly, Socrates, a philosopher, believed that mind is more important than physical beauty, in the fact that mind represents ideas and concepts, on the other hand, physical beauties are facts. According to his thought, when a person truly knows themselves, they are capable of being wise to extract existed facts from their minds. As the mind is head of sensory elements of the body, and as the facts are nothing more than physical beauties of the universe that can be sensed by sensory elements, teaching facts is not necessary. Students who know themselves, indeed, can learn the facts by observing the physical world that they are living.
Secondly, ideas and concepts are complex combinations of facts. Students can learn facts unintentionally while they understand ideas and concepts, since understanding this complex web of facts requires defining the facts and bring them together into the complex structure. Unlike facts that are one and only, ideas and concepts are changing depending on the one's mind, and thus, as students are expected to make new ideas and create new concepts, understanding previous arguments of others will guide them in their field. Consequently, the education system would be better if students can understand how to combine different facts truly.
Thirdly, a truly wise person must use their unique minds, indeed, they should not use others' perspectives to interpret the current situation. Although a person, who lacks the ability to understand ideas and concepts, knows abundant facts, that person behaves in the way of others without noticing that subconsciously, their actual willing is to behave in another way. Thus, instead of learning numerous facts students can be thought how they can understand and interpret certain situations.
In conclusion, likely thought of an ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, who believes the mind is wise, it is more important for students to understand concepts and ideas than it is for them to learn facts since they provide unintentional learning of combined facts. Lastly, people can interpret appropriately, certain situations if they can understand own way of thinking.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2226.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 410.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42926829268 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91905471485 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.460975609756 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 653.4 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.3178316639 48.9658058833 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.125 100.406767564 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.625 20.6045352989 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 5.45110844103 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331118868337 0.236089414692 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126773178701 0.076458572812 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115105152426 0.0737576698707 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222206121774 0.150856017488 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.130656933212 0.0645574589148 202% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 11.7677419355 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 10.9000537634 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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