In context, which version of sentences (7) and (8) best combines them into a single sentence?

Direction:
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Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English

(1) Belief in equality has still deeper and more far reaching effects on education than those that we have known. (2) Because some people have gifts that are denied to others, the inclination for the thorough going equalitarian will be reasoned to say that they are not important. (3) In the school we shall tend to equate the value of subjects to say that it is just as important to be able to make straw mats or mend a fuse as to write Greek-verse or do higher mathematics. (4) That democracy to answer for the dangers of what may be called cultural equalitarianism are very real. (5) In so far it equates in value the experiences enjoyed by different kinds of people such a philosophy deprives education and hence society itself of its standards of value. (6) In an equalitarian society, a man’s judgment is theoretically as good as another’s. (7) But do we think that the papers with the largest circulation are as good as some of those smaller ones or that the programs with the largest listening figures are really the best programs? (8) We may enjoy those most, but can we honestly say that they are the best? (9) Above all, when we said that the function of education was to develop the best in each person, what did we mean? (10) The truth is we must introduce the idea of equality into our judgment of experience. (11) The equalitarian, in so far as he maintains that one man’s taste is as good as another’s, is wrong.