"Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate（ 不幸的） victim of adverse（不利的） circumstances（情况）, deprived（剥夺） of one of the greatest twentieth century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states invest in institutions（协会） of learning to get back（在后） interest in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential（潜在的） leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction, so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks（教科书）, those purchasable wells（井） of wisdom（ 智慧）. What would civilization（文明） be like without its benefits? So much is certain that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants（被告）, marriages and births, but our spiritual（ 精神的） outlook（观点） would be different. We would lay less stress on facts and figures, and more on a good memory, on applied psychology（ 心理学）, and on the capacity（容量） of a man to get along with his fellow（同伴的） citizens（公民）.