whose chief goal is preparation for guidance and leadership of a community.

它把主要目标放在准备对团体的指导和领导
If you don't believe me about this, maybe you will consider the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

若你在这点上不信我也许你会考虑下让雅克·罗素所说过的
one of the great readers of Plato's Republic.

他也是伟大的柏拉图阅读者中的一员
Rousseau wrote in his Emile,

罗素在他的《爱弥尔》中这样写道
"To get a good idea of public education," he says,

"想得到公共教育的好想法"他说
"read Plato's Republic. It is not a political treatise,

"阅读柏拉图的《理想国》它不是一部政治学专著
as those who merely judge books by their title think,

正如那些仅仅从标题上判断这本书的人所想的
but it is the finest, most beautiful work on education ever written."

但它是有史以来最好的最美的关于教育的著作
Rousseau.

罗素
So, there we go.

好了
Let's now peek into the book itself.

现在让我们一窥这书本身
Just peek.

就一瞥