Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
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Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
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To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
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The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves.
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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
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To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
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People should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences.
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Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.
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Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Reason: The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past.
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The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
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We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
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Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
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In any field-business, politics, education, government-those in power should be required to step down after five years.
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Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field.
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Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.
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Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people whom they serve.
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As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
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Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation must be the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.
Reason: Great achievements by a nation's rulers, artists, or scientists will ensure a good life for the majority of that nation's people.
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Some people believe that government officials must carry out the will of the people they serve. Others believe that officials should base their decisions on their own judgment.
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Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
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Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.
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Some people believe that in order to thrive, a society must put its own overall success before the well-being of its individual citizens. Others believe that the well-being of a society can only be measured by the general welfare of all its people.
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Claim: It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
Reason: The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished.
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All college and university students would benefit from spending at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
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A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
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