Group Discussion

• What is your opinion of the author’s point of view in the text? Do you agree?

• How do you view the fact that some people can also succeed without much higher education? Do you think there is a big difference between an educated success and an uneducated success?

Quiz

1. Quiz 1

2. Quiz 2

1) She _____ useful knowledge of the English by careful study.

A. acquired B. gained

C. sacrificed D. earned

2) Their ____ that their project under way was something entirely new proved to be untrue.

A. belief B. assumption

C. faith D. suggestion

3) The class has a/an ____ of 27 students.

A. enrollment B. register

C. staff D. record

4) Fifty dollars will ____ for my needs.

A. fill B. satisfy

C. content D. suffice

5) They had a/an ____ agreement not to raise the touchy subject.

A. obvious B. complacent

C. implicit D. explicit

6) The lecture provided ____ insight into foreign affairs.

A. penetrating B. pendular

C. pensive D. penal

7) The popularity of the film shows that the reviewers’ fears were completely _____.

A. unjustified B. unjust

C. misguided D. unaccepted

8) The head of the museum was _____and let us actually examine the ancient manuscripts.

A. promising B. agreeing

C. pleasing D. obliging

9) North American fur trade ___ in the early 1800’s mainly due to the diminishing number of fur-bearing animals.

A. ceased B. staggered

C. waned D. collapsed

10) The place did not seem to be popular, for it was completely deserted, and in any case _____ to traffic.

A. inaccessible B. inadequate

C. insignificant D. incompatible

3. Quiz 3

1) A degree in English does not ______ you to teach English. (quality)

2) You must realize that it is _________ that has cramped your progress. (arrogant)

3) The hostess bustled about with an __________of authority. (assume)

4) After the election, the coalition __________. (fragment)

5) The man has ________ income for a comfortable retirement. (suffice)

6) He __________ when he saw the dead animal. (shudder)

7) I am ________ that a good deal more is still to be done. (sense)

8) He nearly died of ________ on the cold mountain. (expose)

Writing

What enlightenment have you got from this text? (In about 130 words)

Listening Lab

THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

By Martin L. King Jr.

... It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is _____ and the other is ______. Education must enable a man to become more _______, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

Education must also train one for quick, resolute and _______ thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is _______ its purpose.

A great majority of the so-called educated people does not think _______ and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of __________, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and ______ evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think _________ and to think _______. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.