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Text 1
Similarities Between Work and School
Work and school are very much alike in at least five ways. First, both require an early
start. Going to work requires getting up early
to avoid the traffic rush, and going to school
requires getting up early to be assured of a parking space. Second, promptness is important in
both places. Being at work on time pleases the employer; being in
class on time pleases the
instructor. Third, both involve quotas. A job imposes various quotas on a worker to ensure
maximum production--for example, a certain amount of boxes must be filled on an assembly line,
or a designated number of calls must be made by a telephone solicitor. Likewise, school imposes
quotas on a student to ensure maximum effort--for instance, a certain number of essays must be
written in an English composition class or a specific number of books must be read in an
American Novel course. Fourth, both work and school deadlines must be met.
On the job, the
boxes would have to be filled and the telephone calls made by a certain time; in a class, the essays
would have to be submitted and the books read by a certain date. Finally, both work and school
benefit society. Workers produce useful and entertaining items for people to use, such as
refrigerators and televisions. Similarly, students prepare themselves to enter fields like medicine
and law, fields which serve society. It is not surprising that work
and school share these five
similarities, since one of the purposes of school is to prepare a student for the job of his choice.
Text 2
High School and College
Even though high school and college are both institutions of learning, they differ in at least
three ways. The first difference between high school and college is their social atmospheres. In
high school the facility is usually smaller, and students are, for the most part, well acquainted with
each other. In addition, students in high school have the same six hour 7:45 to 1:45 day, thus
helping them to know one another better. On the college scene people are constantly coming and
going, therefore rarely seeing the same person twice in a day, which accounts for fewer people
being acquainted with each other. The second difference between high school and college is their
policies about homework. In high school, homework is required to help motivate students to
study. Knowing they have to submit assignments in algebra or history gives students an incentive
to keep up with these subjects. In college most homework consists of studying; very little of it is
written and turned in. If students do their homework, it is to their advantage; if they do not, the
teachers will not force them to do it. The student is only wasting his own money if he neglects his
course work. The third and last difference between high school and college is their attendance