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I’m struggling to translate and understand this example dialogue from my
textbook.

学生：先生、どうして私たちはこんなにたくさん漢字を勉強させられるんですか。

先生：だれも勉強させていませんよ。だれのために勉強しているんですか。

学生: 自分です。

My attempt at translation:

Student: Teacher, why must we study lots of these kind of Kanji?

Teacher: Not everyone has to study them…..

Student: Myself.

I’m not entirely sure why the causative-passive form is being used in the
first sentence. Why not just causative? I also don’t understand how to
translate だれのために and have it make sense – ‘In order for who’?
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grammar translation conjugations
Use of Causative-Passive Form and ために in this example
In the first sentence, it's passive causative, because the subject/topic of
the sentence is "we (students)".

A very literal translation would be

> 先生、どうして私たちはこんなにたくさん漢字を勉強させられるんですか。  
>  Teacher, why are we made to study _this_ many kanji?
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> だれも勉強させていませんよ。だれのために勉強しているんですか。  
>  Nobody is _making_ you study. For whose sake are you studying?
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> 自分です。  
>  For our own sake...

Xのため is a very common way of saying something like "for X's own good".
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