Comprehension Passage
Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
Teaching, more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large and important branch of the public service. The profession has a great and honourable tradition, extending from the dawn of history recent times, but any teacher in the modern world, who allows himself to be inspired by the ideals of his predecessors, is likely to be made sharply aware that it is not his function to teach what he thinks, but to instill such beliefs and prejudices as are thought useful by his employers.
According to this passage, in modern times, a successful teacher is primarily supposed to:
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impart knowledge
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impart new and the latest skills
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the lines preferred by those in authority
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Inculcate beliefs and biases that are considered beneficial by his employers.