[单项选择] Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, most of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states " invest " in institutions of learning to get back "interest" in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks ― that purchasable wells of wisdom ― what would civilization be like without its benefits So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and births ― but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on "facts and figures" and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and the capacity of a man is to get along with his fellow-citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we
A. children have time to develop at their own pace
B. the parents face the embarrassment not to be able to afford the children’’s education
C. the parents neglect the growth of their children
D. children can acquire knowledge by playing in the jungles