Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED · TED
Sir Ken Robinson探讨教育系统如何扼杀儿童的创造力，强调创造力在教育中的重要性，适合练习英语口语和听力。
Good morning.
早上好。
How are you?
你最近怎么样？
Good.
很好。
It's been great, hasn't it?
一切都很棒，不是吗？
I've been blown away by the whole thing.
整个事情真的让我感到非常震撼（或：让我惊叹不已）。
In fact, I'm leaving.
事实上，我正准备离开。
There have been three themes running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about.
本次会议贯穿了三个核心主题，这些主题与我想要讨论的内容密切相关。
One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we've had and in all of the people here;
首先，我们在所有展示中以及在这里遇到的所有人身上，都看到了人类创造力的非凡体现。
just the variety of it and the range of it.
仅仅是它的多样性以及覆盖的范围罢了。
The second is that it's put us in a place where we have no idea what's going to happen in terms of the future.
其次，这种情况让我们完全无法预测未来会发生什么。
No idea how this may play out.
完全不知道这件事最终会如何发展。
I have an interest in education.
我对教育领域很感兴趣。
Actually, what I find is, everybody has an interest in education.
实际上，我发现每个人都对教育感兴趣。
Don't you?
你不也是这么想的吗？
I find this very interesting.
我觉得这非常有趣。
If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly.
如果你正在参加一个晚宴，然后你说自己从事教育工作……说实话，你其实并不经常有机会参加这样的晚宴。
If you work in education, you're not asked.
如果你从事教育工作，那么就不会有人向你征求意见或提出要求。
And you're never asked back, curiously.
奇怪的是，之后再也没有人邀请你回去过。
That's strange to me.
这对我来说很奇怪。
But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, "What do you do?"
但如果你真的是这样，并且你向别人询问：“你是做什么工作的？
and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face.
你说自己从事教育工作，但他们脸上的表情明显暴露了他们的恐惧（或愤怒等情绪）。
They're like, "Oh my God.
他们纷纷表示：“哦，我的天啊。
Why me?"
为什么是我？
"My one night out all week."
这是我这一整周唯一的一次外出机会。
But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall, because it's one of those things that goes deep with people,
但如果你问起他们的教育背景，他们会立刻反驳你——因为教育是深深植根于人们内心的重要因素之一。
am I right?
我说的对吗？
Like religion and money and other things.
就像宗教、金钱以及其他许多事物一样。
So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do.
因此，我对教育非常感兴趣，我相信我们所有人都是如此。
We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.
我们在其中有着巨大的切身利益；部分原因在于，教育正是引领我们走向那个我们尚无法完全理解的未来的关键。
If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065.
仔细想想，今年开始上学的孩子们将在 2065 年退休。
Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days,
尽管在过去四天里有大量的专家参与讨论，但仍然没有人能够弄清楚问题的真相。
what the world will look like in five years' time.
五年后，这个世界会变成什么样子呢？
And yet, we're meant to be educating them for it.
然而，我们的职责恰恰是教育他们如何应对这种情况。
So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.
因此，这种不可预测性确实非常惊人（或者说极其罕见）。
And the third part of this is that we've all agreed, nonetheless, on the really extraordinary capacities that children have -- their capacities for innovation.
第三点是：尽管存在一些分歧，我们所有人都认同儿童所具备的非凡能力——尤其是他们的创新能力。
I mean, Sirena last night was a marvel, wasn't she?
我的意思是，昨晚的塞雷娜简直太精彩了，不是吗？
Just seeing what she could do.
只是想看看她能做些什么而已。
And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood.
她确实非常出色，但我觉得她并不能算是整个童年阶段中最杰出的孩子（或者说，她的“出色”并不具有普遍性/代表性）。
What you have there is a person of extraordinary dedication who found a talent.
你面前的是一位具有非凡奉献精神的人，他发现了一位有才华的人。
And my contention is, all kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
我认为，所有孩子都拥有巨大的潜力，而我们却相当无情地浪费了这些潜力。