Why is popular education peculiarly essential in a democracy?

9. 为什么大众教育在民主国家中尤为重要？

Reading, writing, and arithmetic, then, are not the goal of popular education.

因此，阅读、写作和算术不是大众教育的目标。

I allow all this, and much more; such certainly is our popular education, and its effects are remarkable.

我允许这一切，甚至更多；这就是我们的大众教育，其效果是显着的。

" It cannot be perfected. Perfected prisons would cost more than is spent on popular education and would be a new burden on the populace" .

“它不可能是完美的。完善监狱的成本将超过用于普及教育的费用， 并将成为民众的新负担” 。

Too many of our own people think of popular education as if it were only a protection against dangerous superstitions, or a measure of police, or a means of increasing the national productiveness in the arts and trades.

我们自己的太多人认为大众教育好像只是一种防止危险的迷信的保护措施，或者一种警察措施，或者一种提高国家艺术和贸易生产力的手段。