所有的学生都应该被要求至少选修一门道德课，即使学这门课意味着会影响学术课程的学习。

1. Nowadays, people tend to attach less and less importance to the inculcation of morality.

2. Knowledge of ethics provides students with a correct view of life and career.

3. The goal of education is to help students grow not only intellectually, but also ethically.

现实和道德

一些教育体系强调学生逻辑推理思维能力的发展，但是那些教学生们探究自身情绪的教育对学生们才更有好处。

While I concede that in certain fields students are well served by nurturing their emotions and feelings, in most academic disciplines it is by cultivating intellect rather than emotions that students master their discipline and, in turn, gain a capacity to contribute to the well-being of society.

1. I agree with the speaker insofar as undue emphasis on reason and logical thinking can have a chilling effect on the arts.

2. Aside from its utility in the arts, however, the exploration of emotions has little place in educational systems.

Indeed, on a systemic scale undue emphasis on the exploration of our emotions can have deleterious societal consequences. Emotions invite irrationality in thought and action, the danger of which are all too evident in contemporary world history.

教育的目的据称是要解放思想和精神。然而实际上，正规的教育是要遏制我们的思维和精神而不是解放他们。

1. Some people might argue that the overwhelming curriculum of schools would restrain our mind and spirit. However, if deficient in knowledge, absolute free mind will lead to total simplicity and naivety.

2. Formal education plays a very important role in the process of freeing the mind and spirit. Basic knowledge, which can only be attained through formal education, is the prerequisite for freeing people’s mind and spirit.

解放思想