Q.2: (A) Read the given extract and complete the activity given below:
[12 marks]
A1 Read the following four statements and find out most suitable statements that summarises
the extract.
(02)
1) The extract is about Abraham Lincoln's passion and zest for learning.
2) The extract deals about what school should do or should not do.
3) The extract speaks about Lincoln's belief that education is a potential tool for building up the all-
round personality of the student.
4) The extract deals with Lincoln's appeal to the teacher to be lenient as well as strict with the
students.
My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish
you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All the adventures probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and
courage.
So. dear teachers, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to
know-but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know
that all men are not just that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel
there is a hero that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.
Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school,
teach him it is far more honourable to fall than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose.
and enjoy winning when he does win.
Teach him to gentle with people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if you
can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach bin if you can- how to laugh when he is sad,
teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in suc-
cess. Teach him to scoff at cynics.
Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery
of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill. Teach him to have faith in his own
ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong.
Try to give my son strength not to follow the crowd when everyone else is doing it. Teach him
to listen to everyone, but teach him also to filter all that he hears on a screen of truth and take
only the good that comes through.
Teach him to sell his talents and brains to the highest bidder but never to put a price tag
on his heart and soul. Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be
brave. Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will always have sublime faith
in mankind, in God. This is the order, teachers but see what best you can do. He is a nice little boy
and my son. (Abraham Lincoln's Letter to His Son's Teacher)
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D) The extract deals with Lincoln's appeal to the teacher to be lenient as well as strict with the
students.
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The suitable statements are:
2) The extract deals about what school should do or should not do.
4) The extract deals with Lincoln's appeal to the teacher to be lenient as well as strict with the students.
- It was the first day of school for Abraham Lincoln's son. Because he was worried about his son, he wrote a letter to his teacher.
- He discussed his teaching philosophy in the letter. He also suggests that the teacher be gentle with his son.
- He advises the teacher to steer him away from envy and teach him the secret of quiet laughter if at all possible. Teach him that glory can come from failure and despair from success.
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