Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.
Reason: The surest indicator of a great nation is actually the welfare of all its people.
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College students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field.
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The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general well-being of all its people.
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Educators should teach facts only after their students have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts.
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The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves.
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Some people believe that our ever-increasing use of technology significantly reduces our opportunities for human interaction. Other people believe that technology provides us with new and better ways to communicate and connect with one another.
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All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.
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Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
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The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
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Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limits the quality of real learning.
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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
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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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Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.
Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
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Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
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Educational institutions should dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
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Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study in which jobs are plentiful.
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Students should always question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively.
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Claim: Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.
Reason: It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are preserved and generated.
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The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds.
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It is more harmful to compromise one's own beliefs than to adhere to them.
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The general welfare of a nation's people is a better indication of that nation's greatness than are the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.
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Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.
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The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
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There is little justification for society to make extraordinary efforts-especially at a great cost in money and jobs-to save endangered animal or plant species.
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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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