Multiple choice

Directions: The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer.

Helvetius, amongst many false positions and licentious reveries, observes with much justice, that the education of man begins at his birth, and is carried on during the whole course of his life. The lowest mechanic, though he may not have distinct and accurate science, has yet such a store of geography, of natural history, of mechanics, and other parts of knowledge, that were his mind to be emptied of it, the wretched vacancy would amaze us.

  1. Helvetius fairly discerns education to be part of the knowledge the human mind amasses while living.

  2. Education is an evolving subject and begins at birth.

  3. Workers with lowly jobs would have gained more knowledge from their work than by studying accurate science.

  4. Helvetius rightly places education on the pedestal of experience.
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Explanation
  1. True, however, the essence is not the wisdom of Helvetius or his wise discernment but his view or perspective on education.
    1. True. This is what Helvetius says, however, this option does not put education in the right perspective. According to Helvetius, education is more a matter of experience from one’s routine interactions of life and less a matter of science.
    2. Not true. This cannot be said.
    3. True. This captures the essence of the paragraph. According to Helvetius, education is more a matter of experience from one’s routine interactions of life and less a matter of science.

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