1. What is the title of the second text?
Answer: The New Life
2. What does the author of "The New Life" say is the greatest privilege of being human?
Answer: The capacity for learning
3. How does the author of "Learning: Our Precious Commodity" define learning?
Answer: The act through which we come to understand our past in a way that helps us to act purposefully in the present
4. What, according to the author of the second text, is a person?
Answer: An organism whose consciousness allows for the accumulation and transmission of experience within itself
5. What is the author of the first text's advice to people who are facing challenges in their lives?
Answer: Keep learning and growing; life can change in unexpected ways
6. What are the two main ideas in the second text?
Answer: The greatest privilege of being human is the capacity for learning and people are organisms whose consciousnesses allow for the accumulation and transmission of experience
7. How are the two texts related?
Answer: Both texts discuss the importance of learning and how it can help people to grow and change
Lesson 13: The Power of Education
1. What is the main idea of the second text?
Answer: Education can have a profound and positive impact on individuals, communities, and societies
2. What does the author of the first text claim will happen if people do not have access to quality education?
Answer: Societies will suffer
3. According to the author of the first text, what are the benefits of education?
Answer: Education can provide economic gains, improve health, and promote social justice
4. How does the author of the second text support his or her claim about the power of education?
Answer: Provides multiple examples of how education has had a positive impact on individuals, communities, and societies
5. In the first text, what does the author say is one of the primary goals of education?
Answer: Help students develop their individual identity and potential
6. What are the three things that the author of the second text says must be overcome in order to achieve universal access to quality education?
Answer: Poverty, inequality, and discrimination