Schools that train students in technical skills for a specific field of
work are more successful, as measured by the percentage of students
that gain employment in full-time jobs in the six-month period
following graduation, than are institutions that teach a liberal arts
curriculum. Technical schools have a student employment rate of
approximately 65 percent, whereas liberal arts schools have a rate of
only 56 percent. This difference reveals that technical schools are
more effectively meeting the challenge of providing education than are
liberal arts schools.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the above argument rests?
C) The percentage of students that gain employment following graduation
is a measurement of that school's ability to provide education.
D) The sole function of education is to help students gain employment.
