Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

The purpose of science, as expounded by Thomas Huxley, was not only the advancement of knowledge, but also 'the alleviation of human suffering'. If the first is to lead to the second, there is need to wed the pursuit of knowledge, i.e. education, with the humanistic impulse. Unfortunately, we divorced our education, politics and administration from this humanistic impulse; so these lost the capacity to alleviate human suffering; some of these, especially politics developed even the capacity to aggravate human sufferings by infecting and distorting our education, administration and labour movement.

What is the underlying idea of the passage?

  1. To re-evaluate the functions of science

  2. To examine the role of education

  3. To relate knowledge with science

  4. To denigrate politics for aggravating human sufferings

  5. To give credit to Thomas Huxley for study of science
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Explanation

The writer rues the fact that education that is pursued is divorced from the humanistic impulse when in fact true education should lead to 'alleviation of human suffering'.

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