题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Have you ever asked1.(you) why children go to school? You will probably say that they go to learn languages, arithmetic, history, science and some other2.(subject). That is quite accurate. But why do they learn these things?

We send our children to school3.(prepare) them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves. Nearly everything they study at school has some4.(practice) use in their life. But is that the only reason for  5.they go to school?

There is more in education than just6.learn) factors. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school, we can continue to learn. A man who really7.(know) how to learn will always be successful, because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself,8.be able to teach others how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand，is either unable to do something new, or just does it9.(bad). The purpose of schools, therefore* is not to teach languages，arithmetic, history science, etc. , but to teach pupils10.way to learn.