Question 6
Barfi
Can someone please explain the difference b/w option A (correct) and D (incorrect) in question 6?
Option A states: "Educational philosophy in Nightingale's day did not normally emphasize developing children's ability to observe."
The author states: When counseling a village schoolmaster to encourage children to use their faculties of observation she sounds like a modern educator.
The title of modern educator given to Nightingale by the author implies that her tactics were new/creative for her era.
Option D states: "Until Nightingale began her work, there was no concept of organized help for the needy in nineteenth-century Britain."
The author states: Her insistence on classifying the problems of the needy in order to devise appropriate treatments is similar to the approach of modern social workers.
It says that the approach she used is similar to the approach being used by modern social workers, implying this approach was new for her era.
Using negation doesn't really help, as I have A & D as the correct answer options using negation. So what is the difference b/w the two and why is D incorrect? IMO both these options suggest the same thing.
There are some subtle differences in language between (A) and (D).
(A) says that "educational philosophy in Nightingale's day did not
normally emphasize developing children's ability to observe." This implies that Nightingale is certainly creative about her approach, but doesn't require that she's the
first person who suggested this improvement.
(D), by comparison, says that "until Nightingale began her work, there was
no concept of organized help for the needy in nineteenth-century Britain." This goes much farther than (A), stating that Nightingale IS the first person to ever attempt to provide organized help for the needy.
To argue that Nightingale is creative, the author DOES need to assume that she went outside of the "normal" course of things. However, he/she DOESN'T need to assume that Nightingale is the first or only person to encourage certain changes. That's why (D) is out, and (A) is the correct answer to question 6.
I hope that helps!