still teaching in the schools.

仍在学校教书
You have convent people coming down that know a little literacy,

修女们有一点文化
not very much, and they're teaching and they're doing the best they can.

虽然水平不高但她们竭力教好书
The quality of the clergy in france

18世纪的法国神职人员
was never higher than in the eighteenth century;

素质是最高的
it was pretty low in the nineteenth century.

19世纪的神职人员素质较低
But still you have these competing sources to educate the young people.

孩子们有各种途径得到教育
Now, parents often resist their kids going to school.

但父母却常常不想让孩子上学
Why would they want to do that?

为什么呢
Well, mothers are responsible for the household economy.

因为母亲们掌管着家庭经济
You have to have enough money

要有足够的钱
to keep the household going.

才能养活一个家庭