英语演讲Doschoolskillcreativity教育扼杀创造力吗.docx

1、英语演讲Doschoolskillcreativity教育扼杀创造力吗Do schools kill creativityGood morning. How are you? Its been great, hasnt it? Ive been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, Im leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes, havent there, running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to t

2、alk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that weve had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that its put us in a place where we have no idea whats going to happen, in terms of the future. No idea

3、how this may play out.早上好. 还好吗?很好吧,对不对? 我已经飘飘然了! 我要飘走了.(笑声) 这次会议有三个主题 这三个主题贯穿会议始终,并且和 我要谈的内容有关 其中之一就是人类创造力的伟大例证 这些例证已经体现在之前的演讲当中 以及在座各位的身上. 从这些例证中我们看到了创新的多样化 和多领域. 第二点- 这些创新也让我们意识到我们不知道未来会发生什么 完全不知道 未来会如何I have an interest in education - actually, what I find is everybody has an interest in educatio

4、n. Dont you? I find this very interesting. If youre at a dinner party, and you say you work in education - actually, youre not often at dinner parties, frankly, if you work in education. (Laughter) Youre not asked. And youre never asked back, curiously. Thats strange to me. But if you are, and you s

5、ay to somebody, you know, they say, What do you do? and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face. Theyre like, Oh my God, you know, Why me? My one night out all week. (Laughter) But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. Because its one of those t

6、hings that goes deep with people, am I right? Like religion, and MONEY and other things. I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because its education thats meant to take us into this future that we cant grasp. If you think of it, child

7、ren starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue - despite all the expertise thats been on parade for the past four days - what the world will look like in five years time. And yet were meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.我对教

8、育感兴趣 事实上,我发现每个人都对教育感兴趣 难道不是吗? 我发现这很有趣 如果你参加一个晚宴,你说 你在教育部门工作 坦白的讲，如果你在教育部门工作，事实上你不会经常参加晚宴, (笑声) 所以你不会被问及你是做哪行的。 你永远不会被问到，很奇怪。 但是如果你被问及， 他们问:你从事什么行业? 你说你在教育部门工作 你会发现他们涨红了脸,那意思好像是 “我的天啊，”“为什么让我碰上？整整一周我才出来一次” (笑声) 但如果你要他们谈谈他们的受教育经历， 他们会把你“钉到墙上”. 因为这些事情都涉及 个人的隐私,对吗? 比如宗教信仰,薪水等 我对教育特别感兴趣,我认为我们都是如此 我们对此有巨大

9、的既得利益 部分因为教育旨在 将我们带入我们无法掌握的未来 大家想想,今年入学的小孩 2065将退休. 没人知道会怎样- 虽然过去四天会议进程里都是关于这方面的专业讨论- 但我们还是无法预知这个世界 五年后的样子。这就是为何我们要让这些孩子 接受教育。我认为正是未来的不确定性 决定其非同寻常。And the third part of this is that weve all agreed, nonetheless, on the really extraordinary capacities that children have - their capacities for innovat

10、ion. I mean, Sirena last night was a marvel, wasnt she? Just seeing what she could do. And shes exceptional, but I think shes not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood. What you have there is a person of extraordinary dedication who found a talent. And my contention is, all kids have t

11、remendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. So I want to talk about education and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. (Applause) Thank you. That was it, by the way

12、. Thank you very much. (Laughter) So, 15 minutes left. Well, I was born . no. (Laughter)第三点就是 我们都认同一个观点- 这些孩子的特别之处正是 他们的创新能力。我觉得昨晚Sirena的表现令人惊奇， 对吗？ 她很出色，但是我认为 她在孩提时代时没显得与众不同。 现在的教育提倡的是一个有奉献精神的老师 能发现一个天才学生。但我认为 所有孩子都是伟大的天才。 而我们却无情地扼杀了他们的才能。 所以我想谈谈教育和 创造力。我认为 创造力和文化知识在教育中占同样比重， 所以这两方面我们应同等对待。 （掌声）谢谢。

13、而且， 非常感谢。（笑声）还剩15分钟。 我出生于-说错了（笑声）I heard a great story recently - I love telling it - of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this little girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson she did. The teacher was fasc

14、inated and she went over to her and she said, What are you drawing? And the girl said, Im drawing a picture of God. And the teacher said, But nobody knows what God looks like. And the girl said, They will in a minute. (Laughter)最近我听到一个很不错的故事-我很愿意讲讲这个故事- 说的是一个小女孩正在上绘画课。小女孩只有六岁 她坐在教室的后排，正在画画， 而她的老师评价她

15、几乎从不 注意听讲，但在绘画课上她却听得很认真。 老师饶有兴趣地走过去 问她：“你在画什么？” 她说：“我画的是上帝。” 老师说：“可是没人知道上帝长什么样。” 这时小女孩说：“他们马上就能知道上帝的样子了。” （笑声）When my son was four in England - actually he was four everywhere, to be honest. (Laughter) If were being strict about it, wherever he went, he was four that year. He was in the Nativity pla

16、y. Do you remember the story? No, it was big. It was a big story. Mel Gibson did the sequel. You may have seen it: Nativity II. But James got the part of Joseph, which we were thrilled about. We considered this to be one of the lead parts. We had the place crammed full of agents in T-shirts: James R

17、obinson IS Joseph! (Laughter) He didnt have to speak, but you know the bit where the three kings come in. They come in bearing gifts, and they bring gold, frankincense and myrrh. This really happened. We were sitting there and I think they just went out of sequence, because we talked to the little b

18、oy afterward and we said, You OK with that? And he said, Yeah, why? Was that wrong? They just switched, that was it. Anyway, the three boys came in - four-year-olds with tea towels on their heads - and they put these boxes down, and the first boy said, I bring you gold.And the second boy said, I bri

19、ng you myrrh. And the third boy said, Frank sent this. (Laughter)我儿子四岁时在英国- 实际上他那会儿在哪都四岁（笑声） 严格地说他四岁那年在哪个国家记不清了，只记得他四岁那年 去演舞台剧基督诞生 你们记得那部剧的情节吗？应该记不得，情节太长。 故事太长。梅尔.吉布森演过那部剧的续集。 你们也许看过，叫基督诞生II。我儿子James在那部舞台剧里演Joseph, 我们为此很兴奋。 我们以为那是个主要角色。 我们给观众们发了T恤： 上面印着“James Robinson 扮演 Joseph(笑声） 他的角色不一定有台词，剧情是 三个

20、国王拿着礼物走进来 他们分别拿着黄金，乳香精油，没药精油。 演出开始了。我们坐在观众席上 我认为他们应该按顺序出场， 演出结束后我们对James说： “你们刚才演的对吗？”他说：“对啊，怎么了，哪错了吗？” 其实他们把剧情改了。 他们是这么演的：三个小演员出场， 四岁的小家伙们头上戴着擦杯子用的毛巾， 他们放下手上拿的盒子 第一个孩子说：“我带来了黄金。” 第二个孩子说：“我带来了没药精油。” 第三个孩子说：“Frank带来了这个”（笑声）（注：“frankincense乳香精油”英文发音和“Frank sent this”英文发音相似）What these things have in co

21、mmon is that kids will take a chance. If they dont know, theyll have a go. Am I right? Theyre not frightened of being wrong. Now, I dont mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original

22、 - if youre not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. And were now running national education systems where mistakes are the w

23、orst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this - he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we dont grow into creativity, we grow out

24、 of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. So why is this?以上例子的共同点就是孩子们愿意冒险。 对于未知的事物，他们愿意去尝试。 难道不是吗？即使尝试的结果是错误的，他们也不惧怕。 当然，我并不认为错误的尝试等同于创新。 但我们都知道 如果你不打算做错误的尝试 你永远不会创造出新东西。 如果你不想让孩子们做错误的尝试，等他们长大了， 多数孩子就会丧失创新的能力。 那就会使他们也变得惧怕错误的尝试。 这种情况也存在于公司经营方面。 我们不能容忍任何错误。这就使得现在的 教育体系成为 最不能容忍错误的领域。 这样做的后果就是我们的教育

25、体制正在扼杀 孩子们的创造力。毕加索曾说过: “孩子们是天生的艺术家” 问题是我们长大后能否继续保有艺术灵感。我坚信： 我们随着年龄的增长而丧失了创造力， 甚至可以说，是我们所受的教育让我们丧失了创造力。 为什么会这样?I lived in Stratford-on-Avon until about five years ago. In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles. So you can imagine what a seamless transition that was. (Laughter) Actually, we live

26、d in a place called Snitterfield, just outside Stratford, which is where Shakespeares father was born. Are you struck by a new thought? I was. You dont think of Shakespeare having a father, do you? Do you? Because you dont think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? I never

27、thought of it. I mean, he was seven at some point. He was in somebodys English class, wasnt he? How annoying would that be? (Laughter) Must try harder. Being sent to bed by his dad, you know, to Shakespeare, Go to bed, now, to William Shakespeare, and put the pencil down. And stop speaking like that

28、. Its confusing everybody. (Laughter)五年前，我住在Stratford-on-Avon（注：英国市镇，莎士比亚出生与埋葬之地）。 现在我已经搬到了洛杉矶。 可想而知，这是个多么合乎逻辑的移居。 （笑声）其实， 那时我们住在Snitterfield 就在Stratford郊外，那里是 莎士比亚父亲的出生地。你有过灵感吗？我曾经有过。 你没把莎士比亚和他的父亲联想在一起，对吗？ 因为你忽略了 莎士比亚也曾经是个孩子，对吗？ 莎士比亚七岁时什么样？我从没想过-他七岁时 的某个特定场景。比如他在上 英语课，想想他在上英语课-多么不可思议 （笑声)“你要努力学习”你能

29、想象他父亲边说边把他抱上床， “现在该睡觉了” 他父亲又说：“放下笔， 别再写那些东西了，别人都看不懂。” （笑声）Anyway, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles, and I just want to say a word about the transition, actually. My son didnt want to come. Ive got two kids. Hes 21 now; my daughters 16. He didnt want to come to Los Angeles. He loved it, but he

30、had a girlfriend in England. This was the love of his life, Sarah. Hed known her for a month. Mind you, theyd had their fourth anniversary, because its a long time when youre 16. Anyway, he was really upset on the plane, and he said, Ill never find another girl like Sarah. And we were rather pleased

31、 about that, frankly, because she was the main reason we were leaving the country. (Laughter)话说远了，刚才说到我们从Stratford搬到洛杉矶， 我想说的是，对于这次搬家， 我儿子并不愿意。 我有两个孩子。儿子现在21岁了，女儿16岁。 我儿子不愿搬到洛杉矶。虽然他喜欢这， 但在英国，他有个女友，是他的最爱，叫Sarah. 他们认识只有一个月后就开始交往了。 我们要搬家时他们已交往了4年。 这对于16岁的年龄来说已经很长了。 我儿子上了飞机后很郁闷， 他说：“我再也找不到像Sarah那样的女孩了。”

32、 但说实话，做为家长的我们为此很庆幸。 因为那个女孩是我们搬家的主要原因。 （笑声）But something strikes you when you move to America and when you travel around the world: Every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. Doesnt matter where you go. Youd think it would be otherwise, but it isnt. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on Earth. And in pretty much every system too, theres a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than dra