Assignment: Quiz 2-READING Final

HUM16-T Q1 2014-2015
2014-09-09T02:56:43Z

Due: Sep 10, 2014 by 7am

If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary

(5) principle for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer’s discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something, we sneak it from him, stealing what he may himself have

(10) heard imperfectly, and add to it our own errors of spelling and opinion.

If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary

(5) principle for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer’s discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something, we sneak it from him, stealing what he may himself have

(10) heard imperfectly, and add to it our own errors of spelling and opinion.