Question

adapted excerpt from \some rights of children as persons\ in school education by charlotte mason
in another way, more within our present control, we do not let children alone enough in their work. we prod them continually and do not let them stand or fall by their own efforts. one of the features, and one of the disastrous features, of modern society, is that, in our laziness, we depend upon prodders and encourage a vast system of prodding. we are prodded to our social duties, to our charitable duties, and to our religious duties. … perhaps it is a result of the hurry of the age that there is a curious division of labor, and society falls into those who prod and those who are prodded. not that anybody prods in all directions, nor that anybody else offers himself entirely as a pincushion. it is truer, perhaps, to say that we all prod, and that we are all prodded. now, an occasional prick is stimulating and wholesome, but the force of inertia 1 in human nature is such that we would rather lean up against a wall of spikes than not lean at all. what we must guard against in the training of children is the danger of their getting into the habit of being prodded to every duty and every effort. our whole system of school policy is largely a system of prods. marks, prizes, and exhibitions are all prods; and a system of prodding is apt to obscure the meaning of must and ought for the boy or girl who gets into the habit of mental and moral lolling up against his prods.
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read the excerpt. then choose the correct way to complete the sentence.
the underlined sentence in the excerpt is an example of a hasty generalization because the author
gives no real evidence to support her claim about all of society, responds to an argument that has not been made, appeals to the audience’s sense of logic and reason

Explanation:

A hasty generalization draws a broad conclusion about a group without sufficient evidence. The underlined sentence makes a sweeping claim about "our laziness" and society's universal dependence on a "vast system of prodding" without providing specific, credible evidence to support that this applies to all of society. This matches the definition of a hasty generalization, as the author overgeneralizes from limited or unstated observations to a claim about an entire group.

Answer:

The underlined sentence in the excerpt is an example of a hasty generalization because the author gives no real evidence to support her claim about all of society