2. School uniform
be compulsory?
In every school there are rich and poor
students. Students from affluent families, if
allowed to wear whatever they like, will put
on expensive, trendy outfits while poor
students can only afford cheap, basic
clothes. Therefore, the former will isolate
the latter which makes poor students very
sad.
Therefore, school uniforms should
be compulsory.
4. What ... is an assumption?
Value assumption
Descriptive
assumption
what the author takes for
granted
preference for one value
over another
EQUALITY
INDIVIDUALITY
All rich students are mean
There are mean and nice
students regardless of status
Definitional assumption
5. Why should we learn about it?
Mutual understanding Persuasive “stories”
6. How to identify assumptions?
1
Background
* Not necessarily
consistent with value
2
Reason
Support/dismiss
values
3
Role-play
What would those
disagreeing say?
4
one vs all
Individual rights vs
group’s welfare
Value
Assumption
7. How to identify assumptions?
1
Author’s
perspective
2
Gap
How reason lead to
conclusion?
3 4
Unstated
ideas
What must we
implicitly accept?
Descriptive
Assumption
Background Role-play
What would those
disagreeing say?
