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The author concludes that a teacher should never pretend to know the answer to a question asked by a student. Why? Because students are aware when a teacher pretends to know something, and teachers should never do anything that causes students to lose respect for them.

The conclusion is about a very specific action (pretending to know the answer), and we know that teachers should preserve respect at all costs. So, the premises would lead to the conclusion if we knew that students lose respect for a teacher when they sense that teachers are feigning knowledge.

The argument doesn’t address effectiveness. We need to conclude that teachers shouldn’t pretend to know things.

We do not need to know what students respect most. We need to know how to avoid losing the respect of students.

We cannot assume that just because students respect honesty above everything else, that dishonesty will lose their respect.

This is, if anything, trying to weaken the argument: if student respect has nothing to do with knowledge, then the teacher won’t lose respect when they pretend due to lack of knowledge.

It isn’t a Weaken answer either, because they could lose respect due to the lying itself.

Irrelevant. Based on the information we have, we don’t know that a teacher’s awareness of student respect doesn’t change it for the better or worse.

This provides a link from something we know to be true (students can sense when teachers are faking) to something we’ve been told must be avoided (loss of respect). So, teachers should not fake it.

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