Self-study
Support Most students are bored by history courses as they are usually taught, primarily because a large amount of time is spent teaching dates and statistics. ███ ████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ ██████████ ██ ██ █████ ████ █████ ████ ██████████ ███ █████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████ ███ ███████████
Summary
The author concludes that the best way to teach history is to spend most class time on the lives of historical figures and very little time on dates and statistics.
Why?
Because most students are bored by history courses as they’re usually taught. The usual way is to spend a large amount of time on dates and statistics.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that spending most class time on recounting the lives of historical figures is NOT just as boring as spending a large amount of time on dates and statistics.
Also, the author assumes that boring students is something that detracts from the effectiveness of teaching history.
22.
Each of the following is ██ ██████████ ██ █████ ███ ████████ ███████ ███████
a
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Necessary, because if it weren’t true, then the fact the current method of teaching history is boring wouldn’t constitute a reason a different way would be better.
b
It is not ████████████ ████ ███ ██████████ █████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██ █████ ████ ██████ █████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ███████████
Necessary, because if it IS incompatible with the attainable goals of teaching history to spend little class time on dates and statistics, then the author’s proposed “best way” to teach wouldn’t be the best way to teach history.
c
It is possible ██ ███████ ███ █████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ███████ █████████ ██ █████ ███ ███████████
Not necessary, because the author doesn’t conclude that the best way to teach history is to completely avoid referring to dates and statistics. The conclusion is just that the best way involves spending “very little” time on dates and statistics.
d
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Necessary, because if the author’s proposed method of teaching history is NOT compatible with the attainable goals of teaching history, then the method would not constitute the best way of teaching history.
e
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Necessary, because if students are NOT more bored by the usual method than they would be by the author’s proposed method, then the premise no longer provides a reason to think that the proposed method is better. What the author proposes would be just as boring.