第33课

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Education is one of the key words of our time.

教育是我们这个时代的一个关键词。

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A man without an education, many of us believe,

许多人认为，一个没有受过教育的人

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is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.

是不幸境遇的受害者，被剥夺了20世纪最伟大的机会之一。

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Convinced of the importance of education, modern states 'invest' in institutions of learning to get back 'interest'

现代国家深信教育的重要性，因此“投资”于学习机构，以期“回报”

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in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders.

一大批开明的青年男女，他们是潜在的领导者。

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Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out,

教育，有着精心设计的教学周期，

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punctuated by textbooks--those purchasable wells of wisdom--what would civilization be like without its benefits?

以教科书——那些可以购买的智慧源泉——作为点缀，如果没有它的益处，文明会是什么样子？

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So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers,

有一点是肯定的：我们会有医生和传教士，

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lawyers and defendants marriages and births--but our spiritual outlook would be different.

律师和被告，婚姻和生育——但我们的精神观念会大相径庭。

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We would lay less stress on 'facts and figures' and more on a good memory,

我们会更少强调“事实和数据”，而更多地关注良好的记忆力，

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on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.

关注应用心理学，以及一个人与同胞和睦相处的能力。

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If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college' imaginable.

如果我们的教育体系仿效其没有书籍的过去，我们就会拥有 imaginable 最民主的“大学”形式。

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Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all;

在部落民族中，所有通过传统继承的知识都由所有人共享；

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it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life.

它被传授给部落的每一个成员，因此在这方面，每个人都同样具备了生活的能力。

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It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.

这是“平等起步”的理想条件，只有我们最进步的现代教育形式才试图重新获得。

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In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all.

在原始文化中，寻求和接受传统教育的义务对所有人都有约束力。

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There are no'illiterates' --if the term can be applied to peoples without a script--while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642,

没有“文盲”——如果这个词可以用来指没有文字的民族的话——而我们自己的义务入学制度于1642年在德国成为法律，

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in France in 1806, and in England in 1876 and is still nonexistent in a number of 'civilized' nations.

1806年在法国，1876年在英国，并且在一些“文明”国家仍然不存在。

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This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure

这表明我们花了多长时间才认为有必要确保

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that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the 'happy few' during the past centuries.

我们的所有孩子都能分享过去几个世纪由“少数幸运儿”积累的知识。

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Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.

荒野中的教育并非金钱问题。

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All are entitled to an equal start.

所有人都有权获得平等的起步。

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There is none of the hurry which, in our society, often hampers the full development of a growing personality.

那里没有我们社会中常常阻碍一个成长中的人格充分发展的匆忙。

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There, a child grows up under the everpresent attention of his parents;

在那里，孩子在父母无时无刻的关怀下成长；

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therefore the jungles and the savannahs know of no 'juvenile delinquency'.

因此，丛林和热带草原上没有“青少年犯罪”。

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No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, and no father is confronted with his inability to 'buy' an education for his child.

没有离家谋生的必要导致儿童被忽视，也没有父亲面临无法为孩子“购买”教育的困境。