Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, from a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy ever had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us—our parents, brothers, sisters, friends—are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from every-one we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird's nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn't like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn't tell you if you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can't do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guid-ance, we begin to see things in different ways.
The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that __________.

A．African children are very poor

B．some children are unlucky

C．education takes many ways

D．schools are of great importance

In the eyes of the writer __________.

A．we have to learn from the people around us

B．school is not important at all

C．only the people caring for us can teach us

D．education takes place everywhere

One can find out what one is good at by __________.

A．the encouragement of people around

B．the teachers of he or she meets

C．thinking of it when growing up

D．trying and practicing it

According to the passage, we know that __________.

A．school is not so important as our living places

B．school enables us to understand the world in other ways

C．school teaches us something useless at home

D．school cannot prepare us for our daily lives

Thepassage tells us that __________.

A．everyone gets education from the day he or she is born

B．different education trains different classes of people

C．school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world

D．everyonewill find out what he or she is good at