Reading Comprehension

(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.

(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.

(1) Books of travel are of all kinds, from the dry records of laborious statisticians to the trivial diaries of globe-trotters.             (2) Explorers, seamen, archaeologists, naturalists, dreamers, what type of man or woman has not written a book of travel? (3) People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred. (4) Yet there are others. (5) The great books of travel are rare as great books in any other class are rare. (6) Similarly, the people of genius, personality and character are rare. (7) To write a book of travel appeals irresistibly to large numbers of persons who have no creative power, whose books are the mere reflection of a shallow curiosity and of a foolish egotism. (8) These deplorable works, though they spread a sort of suburban light upon the beautiful and wild places of earth, throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers who by reason of their fortitude, their imagination, their insight and their ability to evoke the atmosphere and color of the world, have produced books that rank as literature and last for centuries. (9) Alas! There aren’t many.

(7) Most religious beliefs are based on faith, and the point about them is that although you may be quite convinced of them yourself, you cannot be sure of persuading other people to believe them too because. (8) Now, it is with regard to beliefs of this kind that people are now more tolerant than they used to be. (9) Formerly if a man thought differently about religious matters from his neighbors, he was very likely to be burnt alive. (10) And if he did not believe in God and had no religion at all he was thought exceedingly wicked and was punished. (11) This is no longer so.

(1) Books of travel are of all kinds, from the dry records of laborious statisticians to the trivial diaries of globe-trotters.             (2) Explorers, seamen, archaeologists, naturalists, dreamers, what type of man or woman has not written a book of travel? (3) People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred. (4) Yet there are others. (5) The great books of travel are rare as great books in any other class are rare. (6) Similarly, the people of genius, personality and character are rare. (7) To write a book of travel appeals irresistibly to large numbers of persons who have no creative power, whose books are the mere reflection of a shallow curiosity and of a foolish egotism. (8) These deplorable works, though they spread a sort of suburban light upon the beautiful and wild places of earth, throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers who by reason of their fortitude, their imagination, their insight and their ability to evoke the atmosphere and color of the world, have produced books that rank as literature and last for centuries. (9) Alas! There aren’t many.

(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.

(1) Books of travel are of all kinds, from the dry records of laborious statisticians to the trivial diaries of globe-trotters.             (2) Explorers, seamen, archaeologists, naturalists, dreamers, what type of man or woman has not written a book of travel? (3) People read their books and they appreciate a few of them and then they forget, ninety nine out of hundred. (4) Yet there are others. (5) The great books of travel are rare as great books in any other class are rare. (6) Similarly, the people of genius, personality and character are rare. (7) To write a book of travel appeals irresistibly to large numbers of persons who have no creative power, whose books are the mere reflection of a shallow curiosity and of a foolish egotism. (8) These deplorable works, though they spread a sort of suburban light upon the beautiful and wild places of earth, throw only into greater relief the achievement of the true travelers who by reason of their fortitude, their imagination, their insight and their ability to evoke the atmosphere and color of the world, have produced books that rank as literature and last for centuries. (9) Alas! There aren’t many.

(7) Most religious beliefs are based on faith, and the point about them is that although you may be quite convinced of them yourself, you cannot be sure of persuading other people to believe them too because. (8) Now, it is with regard to beliefs of this kind that people are now more tolerant than they used to be. (9) Formerly if a man thought differently about religious matters from his neighbors, he was very likely to be burnt alive. (10) And if he did not believe in God and had no religion at all he was thought exceedingly wicked and was punished. (11) This is no longer so.