Multiple choice

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

From the day when education and culture began to spread gradually from patricians to plebeians, distinctions grew between the modern civilization as of Western countries and the ancient civilization as of India, Egypt, and Rome, etc. Evidently, a nation is advanced in proportion as education and intelligence spreads among masses. The chief cause of a country's ruin would be the monopolizing of the whole education and intelligence of the land, by dint of pride and royal authority, among a handful of men. If they are to rise again, they will have to do it by spreading education among the masses. By what power again has the German labourer succeeded in shaking the many-century-grounded firm footing of the English labourer? It is education.

What message does the passage convey?

  1. That centralization of education would be the cause of a country's ruin

  2. That education can be productive when restricted to a select few

  3. That education and culture are not the prerogatives of the Western countries

  4. That the world will be a better place only when education spreads to the masses

  5. That patricians and plebeians cannot exist together
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The writer strongly advocates the theory of education for all.

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