Logical Reasoning

PT124 · S3 · Q7 Educator: Only those students who are genuinely

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Educator: Only those students who are genuinely curious about a topic can successfully learn about that topic.

Facts

If students aren’t genuinely curious about a topic, they won’t successfully learn it. And they almost never have genuine curiosity about all the things that the teacher needs to teach them. Thus, here’s what a teacher needs to do ...

Evaluation

If we’re trying to reconcile those two ideas, we want a solution to the problem just described: students need curiosity to learn, but they don’t have curiosity for all the stuff we need to teach them.

Goal

Look for something to the effect of, .

Which one of the following most logically completes the educator's argument?

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requires for the fulfillment of
Why this is right
This reinforces what we were looking for, that teachers will need to get their students curious about certain topics. This answer adds that the teacher will also need to satisfy that curiosity, as in teach them about the topic, now that they’re curious. That is basically a commonsense idea about what a teacher does, so it’s safe to add it on.
Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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necessitates the creative use of
Out Of Scope
Out Of Scope: “creative use of rewards” This sounds like one possible way for teachers to try to solve the problem, but rewards would only help if they can spark curiosity, and we have no reason to think that you must use rewards in order to spark curiosity.
8% picked this
is to focus primarily on
Too Strong: “primarily”
This doesn’t get at the crucial idea of needing to create curiosity where it is lacking. The primary focus should be to create the curiosity needed to underpin eventual learning. This is saying to just focus on the topics students are bored by, but doing so without stimulating curiosity wouldn’t do any good.
3% picked this
is facilitated by students' taking
Out Of Scope
Out Of Scope: “taking responsibility for own learning” This doesn’t reinforce that teachers will have to work on curiosity. Instead, it just says a teacher would be helped out if a student did some learning on their own. While that could be true, it would be more germane to this paragraph if this answer at least suggested that students take responsibility for broadening their sphere of curiosity. The teachers are happy to help with the learning part, but since students need to be curious first, that’s where this answer has to land.
2% picked this
becomes easier if students realize
Opposite
This doesn’t acknowledge that curiosity is a must-have for students to learn. It acts like students can just suck it up and learn the unenjoyable topics for which they don’t have curiosity. A teacher’s effectiveness is measured by her students’ learning, so her job doesn’t become easier unless the students have an easier time learning stuff, and this answer doesn’t prescribe anything that we’re told would make learning easier.
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