<p>1) Is education primarily the result of influences other than school?
2) Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues?
3) Can people ever be truly original? (I found this one to be the most frustrating)
4) Do we put too much value on the ideas or actions of individual people?
5) Do we really benefit from every event or experience in some way?</p>
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<p>Not obscure at all. In fact, this is a fairly simple and straightforward question.
All you have to do is talk about people who gained education from some sort of schooling (if you support the question) or people who learned education OUTSIDE of school (if you do not support the question).</p>
<p>Very simple… </p>
<p>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Dr. Frankenstein learned a lot of natural science by reading books on his own, going outside, etc. This is not through schooling.</p>
<p>However, he went to college and then learned a lot more and discovered how to create a human being. This is through formal schooling.</p>
<p>So, I would just use one of these 2 examples and fit it to the prompt and side I pick. And that’s just one book.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre –> went to school, eventually became a teacher and a governess
Alexander The Great –> learned essential leadership skills from his father and application</p>
<p>It’s just a little outside the box thinking… you’re literally just looking for people / examples of learning…</p>
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<p>My thesis can be somewhere along the lines of people should learn moral choices and social issues outside of school because they can understand it better / form stronger opinions / whatever</p>
<p>I can talk about blacks in the civil rights movement… MLK formed his stance on civil rights from being oppressed, not by going to school… etc.
Just think of other people in books you’ve read or in history that formed strong opinions on social issues… this is also an easy question.</p>
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Also easy… this is a VERY broad prompt</p>
<p>Alexander the Great –> he perfect the phalanx formation, which is a military strategy… it wasn’t original since people had already been using it, but he perfected it… etc.</p>
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<p>You can say that we don’t, and then talk about the importance of individual acts by certain people… Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit in the back of the bus was very important, it led to the whole movement, etc.
think of other people who did important things that led to watershed events…
this is a reeeeally easy prompt actually…</p>
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<p>You can say yes, then think of people in books you’ve read who did something in a certain way, failed, then did it better later on… </p>
<p>I think you’re making these prompts more complicated than they have to be. Go research 10 - 15 examples, learn them WELL, and you’ll be able to use it on ANY prompt.</p>