It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts that it is for them to learn facts. Agree or disagree?

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It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts that it is for them to learn facts. Agree or disagree?

In the present age, people are flooded with information from all over the place. Whether it is from the news outlet or internet, people are overwhelmed with facts presented to them. Many people even believe that knowing facts and information as much as possible is enough for the development of the human society. I instead believe that understanding ideas and concepts is far more important especially for the progress of knowledge.
Humans have developed their intelligence by trial and error, constant experimenting and trying out new methods. If we were happy with the information given to us at a particular period of time and just learned about those facts and figures only, then we would not have gained this much intelligence. Learning just the facts means being limited to certain amount of information and thus limited exploration of new ideas. The fact that the human society has developed economically, socially, and in every other aspects of life indicates that at some period of time we have tried to understand new things and have tried to improve on the things that we have already known. This is possible only through understanding of the ideas and concepts previously known to us.
It is important for students to learn and understand ideas and concept rather than just memorizing the facts because trying to understand is a natural way for humans to lead to new information. This means trying to put knowledge into practice by implementing it in the real world. Thus, by doing so we might come across new things which we might explain by using previous understanding about the topic. For example, if Einstein had just learned the information about all the physics theories developed previously without trying to understand them then he would not have been able to develop new theory of gravity and gravitation.
While the facts are important, understanding the ideas and concepts helps in the development and creation of new information which is essential for the development of human beings.

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2018-10-22 Bishal Bhandari 60 view
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...information given to us at a particular period of time and just learned about those facts and ...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... aspects of life indicates that at some period of time we have tried to understand new things ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... new theory of gravity and gravitation. While the facts are important, understan...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, then, thus, while, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1685.0 1977.66487455 85% => OK
No of words: 332.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07530120482 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82956078059 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509036144578 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3023490322 48.9658058833 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.357142857 100.406767564 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7142857143 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.71428571429 5.45110844103 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253619039357 0.236089414692 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103111256035 0.076458572812 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125877802539 0.0737576698707 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1793349197 0.150856017488 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0732862603458 0.0645574589148 114% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 86.8835125448 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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