NAME:
s. s.s.2com
FORM:
ADMISSION NO:
FEm all
SIGNATURE:
GENDER:
use, of
course, implies the ability to use a library both as a
source of reference. For example, a student should
be able to use the index at the back of a book quickly
and efficiently, realizing that words are listed in
alphabetical order, with a dictionary although here
the whole of the book is in alphabetical order, there
being no Index at the back.
ASSIGNMENT
Passage 1
Read the following passage carefully and answer
the questions on it.
A school library is not one of those luxuries like arm
chairs in the staff-room which can easily be done
without which the school will inevitably be the
poorer. Yet some educational administrators and
teachers appear to doubt this. They say that the
purpose of primary education is to teach children the
three Rs to read, to write, to add up and that this can
be done without a school library.
All these things, the three Rs, examination and jobs,
and the library are roads leading somewhere. They
are the means to a further end. And what is the end?
It can be defined as a full and civilized life as full
and civilized as is possible for each individual.
The purpose of secondary education, it is said, is to
get pupils through the Senior Secondary School
Certificate Examination, and, for this, only textbooks
and a good memory are required. One even hears the
argument, we did not have a school library when I
was at school; so why is there a need for one now?
The last of these arguments could be used to obstruct
any kind of progress. Twenty years ago, in many
places, there was no electricity, no hospital, no pipe-
borne water, often no school; but nobody in his right
senses would deny that the coming of these
amenities has been excellent; it is the same with
libraries.
The true purpose of education, therefore, at any
level, is to lead pupils as far as possible in the right
direction. "Full
and civilized” implies the
development of individual talent, the growth of the
body; mind and spirit, and the responsibilities of
citizenship
a. For each of the following words, find another
word or phrase that means the same and which
can replace it in the passage:
i. luxuries ii. inevitable iii. obstruct
iv. fallacious v. talents
b. What is it that some educational administrators
and teachers doubt?
c. State the three
arguments against the
establishment of a school library.
d. Give two arguments that the writer uses to
support the establishment of school libraries.
e. What, in the writer's opinion, add up to a full and
civilized life?
f. "The poorer'
i. What part of speech is poorer in this phase?
ii. What type of phrases is the phrase?
g. Quote from the passage two words or phrases
that reveal the writer's attitude towards those
who argue against the establishment of school
What of the other argument that a school library is
not necessary for the achievement of the purposes of
education? This argument fallacious because its
proponents have misconceived the purpose of
education. Education in the primary school is not just
a matter of learning to read, write and add up. Nor,