08050-A John Locke Essay Competition Junior Division 约翰·洛克征文比赛 (Age 11-15) Group A
Instructor: Dr. Katharine Sprecher
In 10 sessions from 3/31 to 6/9, No Lessons on 4/28 (VEX VRC Robotics World)
Dr. Sprecher will help students select topics, teach essay structures, review students' essays, and correct mistakes.
This course has a limit of 4 students.
The Essay Competition link: https://www.johnlockeinstitute.com/essay-competition
Stanford University has a dedicated page introducing John Locke https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
All essay entries must be submitted by 11.59 pm BST on the submission deadline: Sunday, 30 June 2024
For Junior Division (Under age of 15), The Essay Topics are:
Q1. Does winning a free and fair election automatically confer a mandate for governing?
Q2. Has the anti-racism movement reduced racism?
Q3. Is there life after death?
Q4. How did it happen that governments came to own and run most high schools, while leaving food production to private enterprise?
Q5. When will advancing technology make most of us unemployable? What should we do about this?
Q6. Should we trust fourteen-year-olds to make decisions about their own bodies?
Students need to have free Grammarly account https://www.grammarly.com/a/students to do Plagiarism Check