For, until relatively recently, Occidental education was always thought of as virtually a prerogative of a larger or smaller male, white, elite class, defined in one way or another.

• 因为，直到相对近来为止，西方教育总是被认为事实上作为一种大小不一的男人、白人或精英阶层的特权，被一种或另一种方式所定义。