We are not yet even half-done

[soso]

Have we [any reason /to suppose that total self-knowledge, if it were given to us, would be for our good]?

Children and fools, we are told, should never look at half-done work;

and we are not yet, I trust, even half-done.

You and I wouldn’t, at all stages, think it wise to tell a pupil exactly what we thought of his quality.

It is much more important that he should know what to do next.

* 가목적 it = to tell a pupil exactly what we thought of his quality. 

* 가주어 It = that he should know what to do next.

  = that he should know what to do next is much more important.

  소위 가상법으로 의무/제안/명령등을 완곡하게 표현하는 어법으로 영국에서는 that절에 should를 쓰나

  미국식은 원형동사를 써서 표현함 that he know what to do next. (knows가 아님)

From Letters to Malcolm