Some people believe that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. Others believe that formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
“The best brains of a nation are found at the last seats of a classroom” – APJ Abdul Kalam
I strongly support the point that formal education tends to restrain the inner creativity of a person. Starting from the very beginning, when children enter school, you cannot expect everyone to grasp knowledge at the same pace and be on the same level of acceptance while teaching the same courses and patterns of study. Each student has his own caliber of learning and tries to perform his level best in his own way which cannot be streamlined for a wide variety of students at the same time. What I feel is that formal education should be given up to a certain extent so that it helps the student to realise his or her own interests but should not be forced upon them for an unnecessarily long period of time.
When we take a look at the successful people around us, it will be quite a shocking revelation that most of the people who have big companies to their name or are doing very good in the show business are the ones with no formal educational background.
The biggest example is of Mark Zuckerberg, who being a bright student got admission into Harvard but even the world’s best college could not stop such a bright mind from dropping out and starting his own venture i.e. Facebook, which is now a global phenomenon in terms of connecting people all over the world with more than 1 billion monthly active users. Although Mark Zuckerberg got the idea of Facebook from one of his friends at Harvard did not mean that he had to wait for the entire duration of the course and then start with his company. He realised that being at Harvard is more of a hindrance in terms of utilization of time than it is productive.
Next we can take the example of Sachin Tendulkar, who is considered one of the greatest cricket batsmen ever. He was only in the 10th grade when he realized that he needs to follow his passion and not the puppetry of completing school and going to college as most of the indian students do. He told in his biography that he was forced to study and was told to focus only on one thing at time and the idea of playing cricket as a profession was not really well suited among his parents, but only for his elder brother who realized that he had the talent and the will to play so he got him admitted into a cricket academy and the rest is history.
There is a big difference between ‘Education’ and ‘Knowledge’. Education is a streamlined way of imparting knowledge, while knowledge can be gathered not only from education but also from life experiences, self-revelation, practical experiences, etc. . What one needs in life is knowledge, and formal education is not the only hard and fast way to receive it. Formal education is only needed to a certain extent until you get the spark that is needed to ignite your desires and show you a way and as they say - It’s not what they teach you in school that matters, it’s the experience that you get as you go along which paves a way for you in being a better human being.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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...ced upon them for an unnecessarily long period of time. When we take a look at the success...
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...-revelation, practical experiences, etc. . What one needs in life is knowledge, an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, really, so, then, well, while, as for, as to, i feel
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2536.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 557.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55296229803 5.05705443957 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72264391679 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481149012567 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 37.0 23.0359550562 161% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.3216065628 60.3974514979 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.066666667 118.986275619 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.1333333333 23.4991977007 158% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86666666667 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.117194237888 0.243740707755 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0434597035468 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0348960584522 0.0758088955206 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0565447066349 0.150359130593 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0438147320704 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.1392134831 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.84 48.8420337079 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.7 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 11.2143820225 150% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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