An
Audience for Einstein is recommended in the middle and secondary textbook Teaching Young Adult Literature:
Developing Students as World Citizens by Thomas W. Bean, Judith Dunkerly-Bean,
and Helen Harper.
To assist teachers who assign their students An Audience for Einstein, I have developed
A
dozen questions for classroom discussion or essays:
1.
If memory transfer becomes a reality, how likely is it that it would be
legal?
2. With all the advances in medical science, are we beginning to alter what it means to be human?
3. If we are altering what it means to be human, is that good or bad?
4. An Audience for Einstein delves into the question “Just because we've learned how to do it, should we?” How do you view this ethical debate?
5. Following the theme of the book, would memory transplantation be morally acceptable if by doing it we could retain a great mind which might lead to solutions for some of mankind’s biggest problems?
6. If not outlawed, should medical breakthroughs like memory transfer be strictly regulated and if so, by whom?
7. Would legal restrictions discourage important medical research that could benefit mankind?
8. If memory transfer were possible, should we sacrifice "undesirable" people in order to save those who could continue to make major contributions for all mankind?
9. If we do decide to save those who can make notable contributions to society, who exactly are the "undesirables" who could be sacrificed?
10. If we sacrificed those we declared "undesirable" in order to save those deemed worthy, would that make us better or worse than those societies that didn't allow such a procedure?
11. If medical science could eliminate all our imperfections both big and small, would it be good or bad that we were more alike, and what might be gained or lost?
12. What would a "perfect" human being look like, and how would he or she behave?
40 vocabulary words from An Audience for Einstein
2. With all the advances in medical science, are we beginning to alter what it means to be human?
3. If we are altering what it means to be human, is that good or bad?
4. An Audience for Einstein delves into the question “Just because we've learned how to do it, should we?” How do you view this ethical debate?
5. Following the theme of the book, would memory transplantation be morally acceptable if by doing it we could retain a great mind which might lead to solutions for some of mankind’s biggest problems?
6. If not outlawed, should medical breakthroughs like memory transfer be strictly regulated and if so, by whom?
7. Would legal restrictions discourage important medical research that could benefit mankind?
8. If memory transfer were possible, should we sacrifice "undesirable" people in order to save those who could continue to make major contributions for all mankind?
9. If we do decide to save those who can make notable contributions to society, who exactly are the "undesirables" who could be sacrificed?
10. If we sacrificed those we declared "undesirable" in order to save those deemed worthy, would that make us better or worse than those societies that didn't allow such a procedure?
11. If medical science could eliminate all our imperfections both big and small, would it be good or bad that we were more alike, and what might be gained or lost?
12. What would a "perfect" human being look like, and how would he or she behave?
40 vocabulary words from An Audience for Einstein
(An Audience for Einstein Lexile Measure: 720L)
Trepidation
Primly
Languid
Altruistic
Cryptic
Coalesce
Preordained
Mesmerized
Burgeoning
Unbridled
Stoic
Supplant
Semantics
Unabashed
Transfixed
Eulogies
Furtive
Contritely
Munificent
Florid
Pithy
Cursory
Postulated
Chagrin
Subjugated
Romanesque
Inductive
Judiciously
Impetus
Impertinent
Fawning
Garish
Debonair
Palpable
Ashen
Euthanasia
Mundane
Veritable
Unencumbered
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