I was quite surprised when I read in your letter that you had decided not to finish your studies at the university.
当我在你的信中看到你已决定终止大学学业时感到很是惊讶。
It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.
这就是我们最进步的现代教育试图恢复的“平等起步”的理想状况。