THE ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR GENERALLY IS BEGUN AT THE BEGINNING OF SE...

32. The academic school year generally is begun at the beginning of September. A B C DVI. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 36 Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children onlyfor the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. In some modern countries it has, for some time, been fashionable to think that by free educationfor all – whether rich or poor, clever or stupid – one can solve all the problems of society and build aperfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough, we find in such countriesa large number of people with university degree; they refuse to do what they think “low” work; and, infact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think amoment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than thatof a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned ourstreets and took the rubbish away from our house, we should get terrible diseases in your towns. In fact,when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in sucha way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to our brains and ability and, secondly, thatwe can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work.Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.