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· Actually, I prefer private schools because of the smaller classes and ... usually you have a wider choice of subjects.

2. better than average

· Interestingly, results show that home-schooled children tend to do better than average on national tests in reading and math.

3. to start with ...

· Learning starts with the children's interests and questions.

4. to pass on one's view to ...

· Critics also say that most parents are not well qualified to teach their children and may pass on their own narrow views to their children at home.

5. to build one's own career

· In fact, I think some people carry on with their education when they would do a lot better to get out and start building their own careers by learning things in real life.

6. to put ... to practical use

· A lot of what they do at university is so academic and abstruse that they will never be able to put it to any practical use.

7. to consist of ...

· Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex, how would you react?

8. to impose ... on ...

· It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children — conditions which they themselves wouldn't put up with for one minute!

9. to equip ... with ...

· One of the chief aims of education is to equip future citizens