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请帮忙翻译一下马丁路德金的the purpose of education

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture.
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life. Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one's self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose.
A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no moral

Answer 1

我认为教育对于人的一生和这个社会有着两方面的作用。一个是在公共事业方面，一个是在文化方面。
教育应该使人变得更加高效，使人更加容易达到自己人生中的合法目标。教育同样应该让人能够快速、准确、高效的思考问题。因为敏锐的思考自身问题本身是很困难的。但我们都倾向于承认部分事实、倾向于怀有偏见、倾向于相信宣传。基于这些的考虑，我常常怀疑教育是否达起到了它应有的作用。
很多自诩为教育工作者的人们通常不能科学逻辑的思考问题。甚至是新闻界、教室、平台和讲坛通常都不能给我们客观公正的事实，不能把人们带离大堆的宣传。我认为，这本该是教育一方面应该发挥的作用。教育应该帮助人们过滤筛选最终认清事实，帮助人们分辨真伪。
因此，教育的作用，是教人们学会缜密的思考，并且批判的去看事情。但是失去效率的教育终将给社会带来极大的危害。最严重的犯罪就是拥有才能却缺失了道德。