Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED

How are you?

你好吗？

(Audience) Good.

（观众）很好。

It's been great, hasn't it?

这太棒了，不是吗？

I've been blown away by the whole thing.

整个活动让我大开眼界。

In fact, I'm leaving.

事实上，我要走了。

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

（笑声）这次会议贯穿着三个主题，都与我想要谈论的内容相关。

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

一是我们在所有展示和在场所有人身上看到的非凡的人类创造力证据；仅仅是其多样性和广度就令人印象深刻。

it.

它的范围之广。

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.

第二点是，它让我们处于一种对未来将发生什么一无所知的境地。

No idea how this may play out.

完全不知道这会如何发展。

I have an interest in education.

我对教育感兴趣。

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

实际上，我发现每个人对教育都感兴趣。

Don't you?

难道不是吗？

I find this very interesting.

我觉得这很有趣。

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，你说你在教育工作——其实坦白说，你很少参加晚宴。

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

（笑声）如果你从事教育工作，没人会邀请你。

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

（笑声）而且奇怪的是，也从来没人请你第二次去。

That's strange to me.

这让我觉得很奇怪。

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

但如果你确实在场，有人问你：‘你是做什么的？’

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

然后你说你在做教育工作，你可以看到他们的脸色瞬间变得苍白。

They're like, "Oh my God.

他们会想：‘天哪。'

Why me?"

为什么是我？'

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

（笑声）‘我这一周唯一的社交之夜。’

(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?

（笑声）但如果你问起他们的受教育经历，他们就会把你缠住不放，因为这是人们内心深处非常在意的事情，对吧？

Like religion and money and other things.

就像宗教、金钱以及其他事物一样。

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

因此，我对教育有着浓厚的兴趣，我想我们大家都是如此。

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.

我们对它有着巨大的既得利益，部分原因在于，正是教育将我们引向那个我们无法把握的未来。

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

试想一下，今年入学的孩子要到2065年才会退休。

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.

尽管过去四天里专家们的真知灼见层出不穷，但没人能猜透五年后的世界会是什么模样。