英语翻译

英语翻译
1.That would be the case if our schools and colleges were at their very best,which they certainly are not,and even if the students were among the best and the brightest as well as conscientious in the application of their powers.
2.The very best thing for our schools to do is to prepare the young for continued learning in later life by giving them the skills of learning and the love of it.Our schools and colleges are not doing that now,but that is what they should be doing.
3.To speak of an educated young person or of a wise young person,rich in the understanding of basic ideas and issues,is as much a contradiction in terms as to speak of a round square.
4.In their obsession with covering ground and in the way in which they test or examine their students,they certainly do not act as if they understood that they were only preparing their students for education in later life rather than trying to complete it within the realms of their institutions.
5.And to do it intelligently one must know something of its causes and cures-why adults need education and what,if anything,they can do about it.