Which sentence from Mark Twain's essay "Advice to Youth" conveys Twain's opinion about why one’s youth is the right time to lear
n good values? Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth--something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends--and I say it beseechingly, urgingly-- Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
"I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. "
Explanation:
In this excerpt, Twain says he has many things he wants to tell young people. he thinks it is important to teach young people good values because at that age good values are rooted in people. Then, once young people learn good values, these young people will take what they have learned into adult life.
The statement that best explains how student activism was related to the silent majority was; President Nixon believed that it was the responsibility of the silent majority not to let the vocal minority take over the media.
The word inconspicuous means not clearly visible, or not obvious. I figured this would be the meaning, considering birds would want to keep hidden from predators, so they would stay somewhere not clear and camouflaged.
