英语演讲_Do_schools_kill_creativity教育扼杀创造力吗

“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 didn't want to come. I've got two kids. He's 21

now; my daughter's 16. He didn't want to come to Los Angeles. He loved it, but he

had a girlfriend in England. This was the love of his life, Sarah. He'd known her for a

month. Mind you, they'd had their fourth anniversary, because it's a long time when

you're 16. Anyway, he was really upset on the plane, and he said,

another girl like Sarah.

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，

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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

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。”

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. Doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise,

but it isn't. 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,

there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status

in schools than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that

teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why

not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance.

Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do. We all have bodies, don't

we? Did I miss a meeting? (Laughter) Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow

up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on

their heads. And slightly to one side.

但搬到美国后，有些事使我印象深刻

如果你周游世界

你会发现每个国家的 教育体

系都存在相同的学科等级制度。

没有例外。不论哪个国家。

你认为也许会有例外，但

没有。

排在最前面的学科是数学和语言，

接下去是人文学科，艺术排在最后。

世界

上所有国家都是如此。

而且相同的还有

就是在艺术学科范围内也有等级制。

通常学

校把美术课和音乐课看的较重要

然后是戏剧课和舞蹈课。没有哪个国家的教育体系

天

天安排舞蹈课

但却每天都安排数学课。为什么？

为 什么不是每天安排舞蹈课呢？我认

为舞蹈课很重要。

我认为舞蹈课和数学课同样重要。

如 果有允许，孩子们会不停地跳

舞，我们也一样。

我们都有体会，对吗？

（笑声）事实上，

随着孩子年龄增长，我

们开始教导他们

别的东西，（以前是教他们走和跑），而随着他们长大，我们更关注

的是他们的头脑。

而且略微偏重大脑的一侧。

If you were to visit education, as an alien, and say

education?

succeeds by this, who does everything that they should, who gets all the brownie

points, who are the winners -- I think you'd have to conclude the whole purpose of

public education throughout the world is to produce university professors. Isn't it?

They're the people who come out the top. And I used to be one, so there. (Laughter)

And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the

high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form

of life. But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. There's

something curious about professors in my experience -- not all of them, but typically

-- they live in their heads. They live up there, and slightly to one side. They're

disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way. They look upon their body as a form

of transport for their heads, don't they? (Laughter) It's a way of getting their head to

meetings. If you want real evidence of out-of-body experiences, by the way, get

yourself along to a residential conference of senior academics, and pop into the

discotheque on the final night. (Laughter) And there you will see it -- grown men and

women writhing uncontrollably, off the beat, waiting until it ends so they can go

home and write a paper about it.

如果你以一个外国人的身份来参观我们的教育体系，