Question

select the correct texts in the passage. which sentence best sums up the author’s point of view in this section of the text? adapted excerpt from \some rights of children as persons\ in school education by charlotte mason in another way, more within our present control, we do not let children alone enough in their work. we prod them continually and do not let them stand or fall by their own efforts. one of the features, and one of the disastrous features, of modern society, is that, in our laziness, we depend upon prodders and encourage a vast system of prodding. we are prodded to our social duties, to our charitable duties, and to our religious duties.... perhaps it is a result of the hurry of the age that there is a curious division of labor, and society falls into those who prod and those who are prodded. not that anybody prods in all directions, nor that anybody else offers himself entirely as a pincushion. it is truer, perhaps, to say that we all prod, and that we are all prodded. now, an occasional prick is stimulating and wholesome, but the force of inertia¹ in human nature is such that we would rather lean up against a wall of spikes than not lean at all. what we must guard against in the training of children is the danger of their getting into the habit of being prodded to every duty and every effort. our whole system of school policy is largely a system of prods. marks, prizes, and exhibitions are all prods; and a system of prodding is apt to obscure the meaning of must and ought for the boy or girl who gets into the habit of mental and moral lolling up against his prods. 1. lack of desire or movement

Explanation:

The problem involves analyzing a text excerpt about children's education and identifying the best summary sentence. It also has a vocabulary question (defining "lack of desire or movement"). For the summary, we need to understand the author's point about modern society's prodding system in education. For the vocabulary, "lack of desire or movement" relates to inertia, which is mentioned in the text as a force people lean against.

Answer:

(For the vocabulary part) The term that means "lack of desire or movement" is "inertia" (as per the text's context where it says "the force of inertia in human nature is such that we would rather lean up against a wall of spikes than not lean at all").

(For the summary part, assuming options were given but not fully visible, the correct sentence would summarize the idea that modern society's prodding system (in social, charitable, religious duties) and school policy's prodding (marks, prizes, exhibitions) obscure children's understanding of moral duty, and we need to guard against children getting into the habit of being prodded for every duty/effort.)