By the time they were ready to depart, school had begun.

在他们准备离开的时候，功课已经开始了。

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For when the schools depart from the educational conditions effective in the out-of-school environment, they necessarily substitute a bookish, a pseudo-intellectual spirit for a social spirit.

如果学校脱离校外环境中有效的教育条件，学校必然用拘泥书本和伪理智的精神替代社会的精神。

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