[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. To get a repayment for what an individual’’s education has cost.
B. To get rewards for what they have spent.
C. To charge interest.
D. To give all the children free education.