We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, other, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
我们都对公平感兴趣，然而当一些人想以公平的名义保护学校和考试制度时，另一些人却想以公平的名义摧毁它。
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed - no examination is perfect - but to have to tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in school or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher.
任何对机会公平和成就标准感兴趣的社会都必须定期测试学生。标准可能会改变——没有完美的考试——但必须进行考试，否则将意味着公平和标准的终结。有一些人反对这种观点，他们既不相信考试，也不相信学校或教师的任何控制。这意味着一切都取决于运气，因为每个学生都取决于每个老师的效率、价值观和目的。
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them—a form of favourtism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defend of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child form a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
在没有考试的情况下，雇主将从受人尊敬的学校和他们熟悉的家庭中寻找员工，这种偏袒将取代公平。目前，来自不太受人尊敬的学校的聪明孩子可以出示证书证明他适合工作，而缺少证书则表明一个在受人尊敬学校上学的迟钝孩子不适合工作。如果考试被取消，这种对优秀和机会的捍卫就会消失，而来自贫困家庭的聪明孩子将成为学校声誉的囚徒，无法与心仪学校的孩子竞争就业机会。
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
反对考试制度的人认为，考试是一种邪恶的力量，因为它显示了学生之间的差异。根据这些人的说法，不能有特殊的、不同的学术阶层。他们甚至建议，在体育或任何其他领域都不应该有任何形式的差异：所有的工作或职位都应该由非系统的选择来填补，由人进行的选择可能成了一些计算机的选择。
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