Consider the given statement and decide which of the given assumptions is/are implicit in the statement.
Statement
Experts remark that the goal of education is to give a big push to a nation's potential in research when it is imparted in native languages enabling the country to take full advantage of its citizen's intellectual capabilities
Assumptions:
I. Education imparted in a language other than native languages can limit the intellectual progress of achild.
II. Educationists accord greater primacy to native languages as the medium of teaching to embolden the intellectual and analytical thinking of children
III. Education imparted in native languages will check youths from moving out of the country so that the situation of ‘brain drain will turn into a position of ‘brain gain'.
The key points of the statements are:
(1) Eductiaons's goal is to push the potential of research
(2) Imparting education in the native language will allow them to use their full intellectual capabilities.
Let's look at the assumptions:
(1) If this were not true, then it would have made sense to argue for imparting education in the native language. Only if teaching in a foreign language can limit the intellectual progress of a child would imparting knowledge in the native language make any difference. Hence, this assumption is implicit.
(2) This assumption is also implicit. If the experts did not believe so, there would have been no point or need to argue for imparting teaching in the native language. Hence, this assumption, too, is implicit.
(3) Although education's goal is to increase the nation's potential in research, and this would not be achieved if the talented youth moved out of the nation, this is not the reason why the experts suggest the native language. We can check this via negation; if teaching in the native language would not check the population going out, would it still be a better idea to teach in the native language?
The answer would be yes, as that would still improve the potential of the candidates to stay inside the country and achieve the goal.
Hence, this is not an implicit assumption.
Hence, only 1 and 2 are implicit assumptions.
Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.