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Passage Three

 

　　Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

　　The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can exceed the joy

　　of discovering for yourself something that is important to you! It may be an idea or a bit of in-

　　formation you come across accidentally- or a sudden insight, fitting together pieces of informa-

　　tion or working through a problem. Such personal encounters are the "payoff"in education. A

　　teacher may direct you to learning and even encourage you in it - but no teacher can make the

　　excitement or the joy happen. That's up to you.

　　A reaearch paper, assigned in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, leads you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a process where the joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. Preparing the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process. It provides a stucture within which you can make exciting discoveries, of knowledge and of self, that are Basic to education. But the research paper also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment, to suit a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can do. Writing a reaearch paper is more than just a classroom exercise. It is an experience in searching out, understanding and synthesizing, which forms the basis of many skills applicable to both academic and nonacademic tasks. It is, in the fullest sense, a discovering, an education. So, to produce a good research paper is both a useful and a thoroughly satisfying experience!