Question

adapted excerpt from \some rights of children as persons\ in school education by charlotte mason
select the correct answer from each drop - down menu.
read the excerpt. then choose the correct way to complete the sentence.
the underlined sentence in the excerpt is an example of a
drop - down menu options: straw man argument, logical appeal, hasty generalization
because the author
the rest of the sentence is not fully visible in the ocr text

excerpt text (partially visible):
... 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, in our laziness, we depend upon prodders and encourage a system of prodding. we are prodded to our social duties, to our charitable duties, and to our religious duties... perhaps it is the 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 source of inertia 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 rods. 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 against his prods.

Explanation:

The underlined sentence makes a broad, unsubstantiated claim about modern society and its people, assigning a negative trait (laziness leading to reliance on prodding) to an entire group without sufficient evidence. This fits the definition of a hasty generalization, which is a logical fallacy where a conclusion is drawn from insufficient or unrepresentative evidence.

Answer:

hasty generalization, because the author makes an overly broad, unproven claim about the nature of modern society and its people without sufficient supporting evidence.