Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Although some people suggest that teachers receive more appreciation since they are responsible for educating people in a highly competitive society nowadays, I firmly reckon that teachers were more appreciated and valued in the past. Detailed reasons will be illustrated in subsequent paragraphs.
First of all, people in the past treasured and praised the importance of respecting senior people including teachers; therefore, teachers in the past were appreciated more than they are nowadays. For instance, when my parents once compare how they educated me and how their parents educated them, they suggested that grandfather told them to respect the old and teachers. However, they said that this kind of value is hardly important at all nowadays. In other words, students and teachers should have equal status.
Secondly, there is an increasing amount of educational resources available online for free, which means teachers are not the only channel to get educated in modern times. Teachers are not as important as before, and so they receive less appreciation nowadays. A simple illustration of this is open course wares. Many institutes, such as MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, publish their class recordings and lecture notes to the Internet nowadays. Therefore, students including I nowadays frequently utilize these resources more and even claim that the resources online are better than their original teachers. As a consequence, teachers are less appreciated today.
Last but not least, with the advent of technology, many teachers cannot afford up-to-date educational materials and high-quality teaching, which makes them less valued today. Traditionally, teachers usually specialized in certain subjects and focused on teaching students how to acquire high scores in exams. By contrast, nowadays teachers are required to offer more comprehensive teaching and materials, such as leadership and career path planning, to make students competitive in society. This tough requirement makes teachers burnt-out and they usually cannot offer such materials students need. As a result, since they cannot meet students' needs, teachers are less valued in modern society.
In conclusion, from the aforementioned reasons, I strongly agree with the idea that teachers were more appreciated and valued in the past than they are nowadays.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2003.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 354.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.6581920904 4.8611393121 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.878719576 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.531073446328 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 609.3 618.680645161 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9610341809 48.9658058833 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.277777778 100.406767564 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88888888889 5.45110844103 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => 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: 0.290546154152 0.236089414692 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0986730289538 0.076458572812 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0985940794466 0.0737576698707 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211999658297 0.150856017488 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101952484881 0.0645574589148 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 11.7677419355 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.55 10.9000537634 143% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 86.8835125448 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.