英语翻译All over the world mention of the British education sugg

英语翻译
All over the world mention of the British education suggests a picture of the "public school",and it suggests in particular the names of certain very famous institutions-Eton,Oxford and Cambridge; but people do not always realize what place these situations occupy in the whole educational system.Oxford and Cambridge are universities each having about 12 000 students out of a total of over 250 000 students at all British universities.Eton is a public school,and the best known of the public schools,which in spite of their names,are not really public at all,but independent and private secondary schools taking boys from the age of thirteen to eighteen years.The public schools in reality form a very small part of the school system of secondary education of Great Britain; only about one out of forty English boys goes to a public school,and one out of 1500-to Eton.
Apart from the so-called public schools there is a complete system of state primary and secondary education,which resembles in its general form the state education in most other countries.All children must,by law,receive full-time education between the ages of five and sixteen.Any child may attend,without paying fees,a school provided by the public authorities,and the great majority attend such schools.They may continue,still without paying fees,until they are eighteen.The public schools,although unimportant numerically,have been England's most peculiar and characteristic to educational methods,and they have an immense influence on the whole of English educational practice and on the English social structure.

放眼世界,提及英国教育就不得不提及公立学校,特别是那些大家非常耳熟能详的名字：伊顿,牛津和剑桥.但很少有人知道这些学校在整个教育体系中的构成是怎样的.在全英所有大学共超过250000名学生里,牛津和剑桥各自拥有大约12000名学生.伊顿公学是所公立学校,也是最有名的一所公立学校,但尽管名字如此,实际上并非完全公立,而是一所招收13-18岁男孩的私立学校.其实,公立学校在英国的中学教育体系里只占了非常小的一部分,仅有四分之一的英国男孩念公立学校,而每1500个人里有一个去伊顿公学.
除了所谓的公立学校外,国立中小学会有一个全面的体系,这与大部分国家的教育体系没有太大差别.根据法律规定,所有5-16岁的孩子必须接受全日制教育,每个孩子都可以免费去政府资助的学校就读——大部分孩子都是如此.他们可以一直免费念到年满18岁.公立学校尽管数量不多,但在教育模式上是英国最独特的,因此他们在整个英国教育界和社会架构上来说,都有巨大的影响力.