Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
Should students always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively? Confucian virtue teaches that learning passively is an appropriate manner in which students should show their loyalty to great teachers. However, I agree with the speaker. Progress of humanity and science has been made due to the contributions of those who dared to question about the existing authority and the prevailing ideas. Leading voices came from those who refused to accept all that they are taught with blind credulity in all areas of human endeavor. Thus, students’ skeptical minds should be valued in education.
In tradition constant questions to what they are taught was looked as a challenge to the teacher’s authority. In addition, such behaviors are not tolerated in some school since it may deter other students from effective and fast learning. For these reasons in the public education setting where a number of students are learning together casting questions on what students are taught has been considered as an improper conduct. In fact, in many classes students who show great skills in memorizing all the contents they learned tend to receive the highest grade.
Nevertheless, skepticism has been the propelling power for discoveries and innovation. For example, “Revolutions on the Celetrial Bodies” was able to be published by the Nicolas Copernicus could not have discovered the heliocentric theory. In order to raise many other students to contribute to the progress of science, we should encourage students bring skepticism to the class.
Furthermore, social reform toward the progress of humanity was able to be achieved due to those who dared to disobey what they are taught. For instance, Martin Luther King Jr’s rejection of the Segregation Laws that were accepted as a sort of fair norm in the 1950s in the American society paves the way to accomplishing equal civil rights to the colored. By questioning the fairness and relevance of contemporary laws, he led the Civil Rights Movement that resulted in the abolition of Segrgation Laws. Thus, students should be encouraged to think critically about the assumptions underlying the status quo; otherwise, more oppression and prejudice would prevail in our society rather than blindly accept the existing values that are imposed through education.
Once Wilson Miznor said “I repsect faith but doubt is what gets you and education.:. In order to educate students to be another innovator or reformer, they should be encouraged to ask questions to teachers instead of blindly accepting whatever they are learning. For a beter tomorrow what we have to do is to challenge the established ideas pervasive norms.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 535, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to tend'
Suggestion: to tend
...emorizing all the contents they learned tend to receive the highest grade. Never...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, look, may, nevertheless, so, thus, for example, for instance, in addition, in fact, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2293.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35747663551 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90871523019 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558411214953 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 696.6 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0234014938 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.65 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.413862709079 0.243740707755 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128888888719 0.0831039109588 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.176311740203 0.0758088955206 233% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232145498647 0.150359130593 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107445166698 0.0667264976115 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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