"My God, it speaks" uttered the Emperor of Brazil and the receiver of the Telephone slipped from his hand and banged aground. At the other end, Alexander Graham Bell was still on line. This incident goes back to 1876 when at an exhibition in Philadelphia (USA), Alexander Graham Bell was giving a demonstration of his new invention. This strange instrument known as Telephone was to revolutionize life in the years to come. Bell was born at Edenborough, Scotland. He was a teacher and was dedicated to the noble cause of teaching the deaf and the dumb. Due to a severe illness, Bell was sent to Canada in 1870, where too he got engaged in helping the dumb-deaf to hear and speak. Thereafter, he shifted to the USA but continued with his work by opening a school for deaf and dumb. Bell was fond of scientific inventions and was ever engaged in making some machines in his spare time. While at Boston, he tried to communicate through metal wire. His companion in this work was Watson. One day while experimenting with his instrument, Bell spoke to Watson standing at a distance. Watson was taken by a pleasant surprise as he had heard Bell clearly through his instrument. The instrument was a success and Bell patented it.
Graham Bell had some sterling qualities of head and heart. Apart from being an artist, he was a kind human being, ready to help the needy. He established an institution for the deaf and dumb children. He died in 1922 in Canada. The entire northern America paid him a tribute by hanging up their telephones for a while during his funeral.
The question asks for the reason why the teaching activity undertaken by Bell was considered 'noble'. The correct answer highlights the specific group he was teaching.
Evaluating Bell's Noble Teaching Activity
Bell's work in education is often regarded as 'noble' primarily due to the specific context and beneficiaries of his efforts. Let's analyze the options:
- Option A: He was teaching the physically underprivileged persons. This is often cited as a key reason for the nobility associated with Bell's teaching. Focusing efforts on those who are physically underprivileged or disadvantaged demonstrates significant compassion and dedication to social good.
- Option B: There was nobody else in the field of education. This statement is factually incorrect. Education has always had many practitioners. Bell's work was significant, but not because he was the sole educator.
- Option C: He was not accepting any salary for that job. While dedicating one's time without pay can be noble, it is not the primary reason given for the specific recognition of Bell's teaching activity in this context. The focus is usually on the recipients of the teaching.
- Option D: He was a very famous scientist of his times. Bell's fame as a scientist (inventor of the telephone) certainly brought attention to his work, but his fame itself doesn't automatically make his teaching activity 'noble'. The nature of the activity is what defines its nobility.
Conclusion on Nobility
The teaching activity was considered 'noble' because it specifically targeted and served the physically underprivileged persons. This focus on a vulnerable group underscores the compassionate and socially valuable nature of his work, distinguishing it as a noble pursuit.
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Important Questions from Reading Comprehension (Notes)
- Despite the thunderstorm, the old man remained seated on the porch, staring into the distance. Rain lashed the ground around him, but he didn't flinch. His eyes, cloudy with age, fixed on something far beyond the horizon - something only he could see. The storm was loud, but whatever echoed in his mind was louder.
What can be inferred about the man? Rearrange the following sentences into a logical and meaningful paragraph.
(A) A famous Japanese rock garden is at Ryoan-si in Northwest Kyoto, Japan.
(B) The rocks of various sizes are arranged on small white pebbles in five groups, each comprising five, two, three, two and three rocks.
(C) The garden is 30 meters long from East to West and 10 metres from North to South.
(D) The garden contains 15 rocks arranged out on surface of white pebbles in such a manner that visitors can see only 14 of them at once from whichever angle the garden is viewed.
(E) There are no trees, just 15 irregularly shaped rocks of varying sizes, some arranged by gravel that is raked everyday.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:- Choose the most appropriate sentence from the options given below to logically complete the following paragraph:
The highest ideals of the age today are humanism and scientific spirit. There has been an apparent conflict between the two. But the great upheaval of thought today, with its questioning of all values, is removing the old boundaries between the external world of science and the internal world of introspection. - The full form of CABE is ______
- ______ was appointed as a chairman of the Secondary Education on 1952.
