22. Most students are bored by history courses as they are usually taught, primarily because a large amount of time is spent teaching dates and statistic. The best way to teach history, therefore, is to spend most class time recounting the lives of historical figures and very little on dates and statistics. Each of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends EXCEPT: (A) One should avoid boring one’s students when teaching a history course. (B) It is not incompatible with the attainable goals of teaching history to spend very little class time on dates and statistics. (C) It is possible to recount the lives of historical figures without referring to dates and statistics. (D) It is compatible with the attainable goals of teaching history to spend most class time recounting the lives of historical figures. (E) Students are more bored by history courses as they are usually taught than they would be by courses that spend most class time recounting the lives of historical figures.
[face=Verdana]This is a bit more tricky. If we have the conclusion here like:
"The best way to teach history, therefore, is to spend most class time recounting the lives of historical figures and very little on dates and statistics, and we should follow it,"
then C is definitely the ASSUMPTION. However, what is laid out in the passage is only something about the "Best Way", whether it is feasible or not is out of scope, as we are NOT told we should follow the best way, instead we are only informed of what the best way is like, and the boredom of the students is not something desirable for the history class. Therefore, anything regarding the feasibility of the best way if not the ASSUMPTION for the argument validity to be hold.
but generally speaking, it cannot be called a good one, not to say the best one, if the method is not feasible.
my opinion is that since the arguer only say "very little on dates and statistics." instead of "while avoid to mention any dates and statistics", B is not required.
hey, buddy, that's reall quite an explanation!!! but folks, could we not highlight any choice to be the best one so that we would not be disatracted. thanks
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