The Education Ministry proposed guidelines to decrease the amount of the homework given to students each day, their burden well above what they can endure.

教育部建议减少每天给学生的家庭作业量，学生的负担远远超过他们所能承受的。

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Providing safe water means children are healthy and can get an education, free from the burden of fetching water for their families.

提供安全的清洁水意味着孩子更健康，能够接受更好的教育，从取水养家的重担下解脱出来。

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Her hope was, that Linton might be left with him, as he had been with her: his father, she would fain convince herself, had no desire to assume the burden of his maintenance or education.

她的希望是把林惇交给他，就像他从前和她在一起一样；她自己也情愿相信，这孩子的父亲根本不想担起抚养和教育他的义务。

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This, of course, still understates the ultimate economic burden of education, its "opportunity cost"--the output that could otherwise be generated by those in school.

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Until we demand more reason and responsibility from not only students but those at the top as well, the debt burden will only grow and the value of a higher education will only diminish.

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And while the U.S. received high honors in some areas--first, for instance, in research collaboration between businesses and universities and third in number of patents per capita--it ranked 48th in science and math education, 53rd in the burden of government regulation and 23rd in Internet bandwidth.

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