Is studying ancient culture still relevant in modern education?
The question
Some people believe that studying ancient culture is no longer relevant in modern education. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
How to answer it
The word doing the work is 'relevant', so define it early — relevant to employment, to citizenship, or to understanding where present arrangements came from. Disagreeing is easier to argue well: ancient culture is where the arguments about law, power and belief were first held, and students who never meet them mistake the current arrangement for the only possible one. Concede that curriculum time is finite and say what you would cut instead.
What moves the band
- Do not drift into 'history is interesting' — the prompt is about relevance, which is a claim about use.
- A defined key term in the introduction is worth more than an elaborate hook.
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