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According to John Dewey's progressive philosophy of education, a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge.
A. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge
B. rather than just teaching abstract knowledge, schools should be designed as laboratories, in which children develop their potential by integrating experiencing and learning and are exposed to the principles of democracy as are members of an embryonic community
C. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experience and learning, and as an embryonic community, where they are exposed to the principles of democracy, rather than as a mere purveyor of abstract knowledge
D. schools should be designed as laboratories, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experience and learning, rather than just teaching abstract principles, and as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy
E. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experiencing and learning, rather than just acquiring abstract knowledge; it should also be an embryonic community, that exposes them to democratic principles.
A. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge
B. rather than just teaching abstract knowledge, schools should be designed as laboratories, in which children develop their potential by integrating experiencing and learning and are exposed to the principles of democracy as are members of an embryonic community
C. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experience and learning, and as an embryonic community, where they are exposed to the principles of democracy, rather than as a mere purveyor of abstract knowledge
D. schools should be designed as laboratories, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experience and learning, rather than just teaching abstract principles, and as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy
E. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experiencing and learning, rather than just acquiring abstract knowledge; it should also be an embryonic community, that exposes them to democratic principles.
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Merlin's Beard! A toughie indeed. Option (C) for me. The best among the seemingly worse choices.
According to John Dewey's progressive philosophy of education, a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge.
MEANING: Schools should be designed as laboratories rather than just teaching abstract knowledge.
IMO, questions such as these require a clear understanding of the meaning of the sentence before diving into the option choices.
According to John Dewey's progressive philosophy of education, a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge.
MEANING: Schools should be designed as laboratories rather than just teaching abstract knowledge.
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X rather than Y. X is exposes them to the principles of democracy and Y is just teaching abstract knowledge. X and Y should be parallel. Incorrect.
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rather than just teaching abstract knowledge - schools should be designed as laboratories. This structure is wrong. In X rather than Y structures, X and Y should be parallel. Here, one is verbing phrase (teaching abstract knowledge) while the other is a noun (laboratories). This is not acceptable. Incorrect.
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X rather than Y parallelism is maintained. Conveys the intended meaning correctly. Right choice.
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Correct structure is, ...should be designed as X rather than as Y. This option choice does not follow the same. Incorrect.
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Same error as above. Incorrect.
IMO, questions such as these require a clear understanding of the meaning of the sentence before diving into the option choices.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
According to John Dewey's progressive philosophy of education, a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge.
A. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential through the integration of experience and learning, and also as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy, rather than just teaching abstract knowledge
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The construction A rather than B requires that A and B belong to the same part of speech. In this case, A (as a laboratory... and as an embryonic community) is comprised of two parallel nouns whereas B (teaching) is a non-conjugated verb.
What helps you identify this is a Parallelism question is the following Stop Sign:
Stop Sign: A rather than B
When you identify this structure, make sure it follows these rules:
- 1. A and B must be of the same part of speech.
2. A and B must be logically parallel.
B. rather than just teaching abstract knowledge, schools should be designed as laboratories, in which children develop their potential by integrating experiencing and learning and are exposed to the principles of democracy as are members of an embryonic community
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question, by moving the clause beginning with rather than to the beginning of the underlined section, it is grammatically incorrect.
Verb+ing (experiencing) can be used as a noun replacement only when there's no actual noun. Since there is a real noun - experience - it should be used instead.
C. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experience and learning, and as an embryonic community, where they are exposed to the principles of democracy, rather than as a mere purveyor of abstract knowledge
This answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question, by changing the clause just teaching abstract knowledge to a noun: a mere purveyor of abstract knowledge.
What helps you identify this is a Parallelism question is the following Stop Sign:
Stop Sign: A rather than B
When you identify this structure, make sure it follows these rules:
- 1. A and B must be of the same part of speech.
2. A and B must be logically parallel.
The corrected sentence results in a nested parallel structure: a school should be designed as A rather than B.
A [=(A' = a laboratory and B'= an embryonic community)] rather than B [=a mere purveyor of knowledge].
D. schools should be designed as laboratories, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experience and learning, rather than just teaching abstract principles, and as an embryonic community that exposes them to the principles of democracy
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question by rearranging the sentence's structure, and moving rather than just teaching, etc. into the middle of the sentence, after the word learning, this answer choice is illogical and changes the meaning of the original sentence.
In the original sentence, school was the subject of the verb teaching, whereas in the corrected sentence children is the subject of teaching.
E. a school should be designed as a laboratory, in which children may develop their potential by integrating experiencing and learning, rather than just acquiring abstract knowledge; it should also be an embryonic community, that exposes them to democratic principles.
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question, by creating two clauses separated by a semicolon, it introduces another grammatical mistake and is stylistically flawed.
Grammatical mistake: The relative pronoun that cannot appear after a comma.
Stylistic Flaw: The creation of a second clause and the use of it to refer to the subject a school in the new clause is wordy and redundant. The three points about Dewey's philosophy concerning schools can be worded more concisely by using parallel structures.
