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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers ID: #38261 Greeks

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There is one salient difference between education as understood by the Greeks and the popular ideas of education in our own day. To the Greeks, education was primarily a training of the faculties that should fit man for the exercise of thought and duties of citizenship. The modern world looks rather to the acquisition of some skill or knowledge that is needed for a career; it thinks more of the product than of the process. Acquaintance with facts counts more with the moderns, while mental completeness and grasp were prized by the Greeks above everything else. But mental completeness did not mean to the Greeks intellectual discipline alone; it meant also a discipline and molding of character, a training in public spirit, a suppression of the individual, a devotion to civic ends. It is, on the one hand, mental illumination, but it also implies refinement and delicacy of feeling, a scorn of what is self-seeking, ignoble, dishonorable — a scorn bred of loving familiarity with poets and philosophers. Our nearest expression for this generous and many sided training is the word 'Culture'. Culture, however, to many minds suggests a kind of polish, a superficial refinement. Besides, it has an air of exclusiveness; it is thought of as the privilege of the favored few.

In what respects is the Greek outlook on education different from the modern outlook?

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The Greeks considered education to be a medium for intellectual development only. The Greeks believed that education helps mould character. For the Greeks, education provided a link between learning and prosperity. For the Greeks, education provided merely an acquaintance with facts. The Greek scholars had an air of exclusiveness. For the Greeks, education refines delicacy of feeling.

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In what respects is the Greek outlook on education different from the modern outlook?

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Option 1: "The Greeks considered education to be a medium for intellectual development only."

Option 2: "The Greeks believed that education helps mould character."

Option 3: "For the Greeks, education provided a link between learning and prosperity."

Option 4: "For the Greeks, education provided merely an acquaintance with facts."

Option 5: "The Greek scholars had an air of exclusiveness."

Option 6: "For the Greeks, education refines delicacy of feeling."