00:00Okay, so first, what are these lessons going to do? So they're mostly designed to help you consider this question and to think about it in a sophisticated manner, okay?
00:15Because it might be the first time you guys in your life have ever had a question with no syllabus behind it.
00:26No sort of specific examples that they want you to use, where it's very open ended and you can take it in any direction you want.
00:40And that makes it in some ways a bit easier because the key thing is to focus on what you're interested in.
00:48Because then you'll write more interesting essays on it.
00:52But it's also a bit harder because the only essays that will do really well are the ones that really think about the question and answer it in a way that is not simply interesting,
01:09but that goes a little bit deeper into an answer rather than simply, for instance, a more sort of straightforward answer here,
01:24might simply be because schools, governments run schools because education is a right for everyone, whereas having luxury food is not a right for everyone, or because food is cheaper.
01:43Those would be two very simple answers, but we need to do a bit more thinking to do really well.
01:54So then I also want to give you the tools and the ideas that will help you formulate your own answer.
02:03For the junior prize, the readings are not as important. When you guys come to do the senior prize, the main prize,
02:13that's when readings and mentioning lots of other texts and things is really, really important.
02:20It is good if you can start by mentioning some readings and we'll talk more about this in lecture six.
02:29But what I'm going to do is recommend sort of articles and stuff in real sort of academic work and for the main prize.
02:37Using online articles is not great because they can be a little bit unreliable.
02:46What I'm doing is trying to only sort of give you guys links to articles that I think are pretty reliable from trusted sources like New York Times,
02:56Washington Post, The Guardian is OK, BBC News is OK. So I try to do that.
03:07OK, and then examples. And I'm not saying you have to use these examples.
03:11There's an almost endless list of examples you can use to answer questions.
03:18So definitely don't think you have to use the ones that I use, but I'm going to use them to help explain some of the points we discuss.
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