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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Tradition

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on tradition. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on tradition.

  • Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

    Gustav Mahler

  • Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

    W. Somerset Maugham

  • The dead should not rule the living.

    Thomas Jefferson

  • When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you are only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

    George R. R. Martin

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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