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[Day 1785 2019-08-16]
Lesson 33-2 Education 教育
If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the
most democratic form of ‘college’ imaginable. Among tribal people all knowledge
inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that
in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life.
It is the ideal condition of the ‘equal start’ which only our most progressive forms
of modern education try to regain. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to
receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. 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, in France in 1806, and in England in 1876,
and is still non-existent in a number of ‘civilized’ nations.
任务配置:L0+L1+L4
知识笔记:
were fashioned after 按...做成
tribal adj. 部落的; 部族的; n. (尤指南亚的) 部落成员;
progressive adj. 进步的; 先进的; 开明的; 稳步的; 逐步的; 稳定发展的; (动词) 进行时的;
n. 进步人士; 开明人士; 改革派;
illiterates n. 文盲; 无知识的人;
compulsory adj. (因法律或规则而) 必须做的,强制的,强迫的;
compulsory school attendance 义务学校出勤
non-existent adj. 不存在的; 不真实的;
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