Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED

How are you?

你好嗎？

(Audience) Good.

（觀眾）很好。

It's been great, hasn't it?

這太棒了，不是嗎？

I've been blown away by the whole thing.

整個活動讓我大開眼界。

In fact, I'm leaving.

事實上，我要走了。

(Laughter) There have been three themes running through the conference, which are relevant相關的 to what I want to talk about.

（笑聲）這次會議貫穿著三個主題，都與我想要談論的內容相關。

One is the extraordinary非凡的 evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we've had and in all of the people here; just the variety of it and the range of

一是我們在所有展示和在場所有人身上看到的非凡的人類創造力證據；僅僅是其多樣性和廣度就令人印象深刻。

it.

它的範圍之廣。

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.

第二點是，它讓我們處於一種對未來將發生什麼一無所知的境地。

No idea how this may play out.

完全不知道這會如何發展。

I have an interest in education.

我對教育感興趣。

Actually, what I find is, everybody has an interest in education.

實際上，我發現每個人對教育都感興趣。

Don't you?

難道不是嗎？

I find this very interesting.

我覺得這很有趣。

If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly坦率地.

如果你在晚宴上，你說你在教育工作——其實坦白說，你很少參加晚宴。

(Laughter) If you work in education, you're not asked.

（笑聲）如果你從事教育工作，沒人會邀請你。

(Laughter) And you're never asked back, curiously奇怪地.

（笑聲）而且奇怪的是，也從來沒人請你第二次去。

That's strange to me.

這讓我覺得很奇怪。

But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, "What do you do?"

但如果你確實在場，有人問你：‘你是做什麼的？’

and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face.

然後你說你在做教育工作，你可以看到他們的臉色瞬間變得蒼白。

They're like, "Oh my God.

他們會想：‘天哪。'

Why me?"

為什麼是我？'

(Laughter) "My one night out all week."

（笑聲）‘我這一週唯一的社交之夜。’

(Laughter) 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, am I right?

（笑聲）但如果你問起他們的受教育經歷，他們就會把你纏住不放，因為這是人們內心深處非常在意的事情，對吧？

Like religion and money and other things.

就像宗教、金錢以及其他事物一樣。

So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do.

因此，我對教育有著濃厚的興趣，我想我們大家都是如此。

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.

我們對它有著巨大的既得利益，部分原因在於，正是教育將我們引向那個我們無法把握的未來。

If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065.

試想一下，今年入學的孩子要到2065年才會退休。

Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time.

儘管過去四天裡專家們的真知灼見層出不窮，但沒人能猜透五年後的世界會是什麼模樣。