Its principal good, its principal goal,

它的最主要的好处最主要的目标
was the education of citizens for positions of public leadership

就是在公共领导地位以及高度的政治责任方面
and high political responsibilities.

对市民的教育
It is always worthwhile to remember that Plato was, above all, a teacher.

记住柏拉图首先是一位老师总是值得的
He was the founder of the first university, the Academy,

他是第一所大学的创始人即学园
the Platonic Academy, where we will find out later

柏拉图学园稍后我们会发现
Aristotle came to study, among many others--

亚里士多德来这里学习过在所有人中
Aristotle being but the most famous.

亚里士多德是最有名的
Plato was the founder of this school.

柏拉图是这所学校的创始人
This, in turn, spawned other philosophical schools

渐渐地这引起了其他哲学学校的建立
throughout the Greek world and later, the Roman world.

遍及整个希腊世界以及稍后的罗马世界
With the demise of Rome, in the early Christian centuries,

随着罗马的灭亡在最初的基督教世纪里