201. "The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas--not to prepare them for a specific job."

教育的目的应该是给予学生一个价值体系，一个标准，一整套想法----而不是为一个具体工作培养他们。

1. By helping students develop a thoughtful, principled value system educators actually help prepare students for jobs.

2. Another reason for my viewpoint lies in the fact that technology-driven industries account for an ever-increasing portion of our jobs.

3. Besides helping students develop their own thoughtful value systems, educators should instill in students certain basic values upon which any democratic society depends; otherwise, our freedom to choose our own jobs and careers might not survive in the long term.

4. Admittedly, values and behavioral standards specific to certain religions are best left to parents and churches.

人们过于重视了学生们挑战他人主张的要求。实际上，达成社会和谐的能力，比如容让和协作能力，应该成为每一所学校的主要目标。

Encouraging students to think critically does not necessarily conflict with our pursuit of social harmony.

1. Critical thinking is key to students both academically and politically.

2. It is necessary for students to criticize the views of each other in their studies, which does not necessarily lead to conflicts among them.

3. Compromising is harmful in academic pursuits.