Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by ashkar on Sun, 10/07/2018 - 15:24

Students, specifically young one, spend a significant amount of their days at schools, educating. Since the leaders of every nation are to grow from the very schools, what youngsters learn there and how is of crucial importance to the society. While some measure knowledgeability, by the number of the fact one knows, I am inclined to believe that it is more important for them to understand ideas and concepts. I will elaborate on my perspective in what follows.

Firstly, It goes without saying that only memorizing a number of facts is never useful. On the contrary, an erudite person must be able to reason, argue, and draw an inference from the evidence. A personal experience of mine gives credence to this issue. A group of my friends and I studied for mathematical olympiads back in high-school. We learned different concepts and theories and practiced proving them. Also, we would spend hours trying to solve problems. When I entered the university, I understood the power of problem-solving that I had gained through these years of practice. While facing a challenging problem I have never seen before, I acted more confident, and finally, I was even more successful than my fellow students. I could have spent that time in the past learning a lot of facts about various subjects, though, it would not have helped me as such.

secondly, by the advance of technology every piece of information is but seconds ahead of us. Facts need not be memorized anymore, because everything can be approached through the internet. The pace of life has grown so rapidly that it does not seems reasonable for one to waste their precious time on memorizing. For example, learning mathematics becomes really important for students, even if they grow to follow various paths in the future, ones without the direct use of maths. Mathematics is where understanding concepts can be observed at its finest. The hypothesizing mindset which is reached by mathematics is undeniable.

In conclusion, by taking the above into account, I strongly maintain that learning concepts and speculation is far better for a young person. It is highly recommended for schools to consider this while carrying out their curriculum. As the Persian expression says, It is better to teach one fishing instead of providing them with fish.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Secondly
...it would not have helped me as such. secondly, by the advance of technology every pie...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 246, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'seem'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: seem
...e has grown so rapidly that it does not seems reasonable for one to waste their preci...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 246, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'seem'
Suggestion: seem
...e has grown so rapidly that it does not seems reasonable for one to waste their preci...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, really, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1931.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 382.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05497382199 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93774317613 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609947643979 0.524837075471 116% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.6248191212 48.9658058833 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.7727272727 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3636363636 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.45454545455 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222518711706 0.236089414692 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0512328531825 0.076458572812 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526136908224 0.0737576698707 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12937311601 0.150856017488 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0220988920678 0.0645574589148 34% => 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: 11.0 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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