英文欣赏之人生感悟 (81)学校 Schools

Schools 学校 September is traditionally the end of summer and the beginning of autumn in the UK. 传统来讲,9月是夏末秋初的月份, It is also the month when children go back to school after their long summer holidays, 也是孩子们在结束漫长的暑假后回到学校的月份。 but what do you actually know about British schools? 但是,你实际上又对英国的学校了解多少呢? ...

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英文欣赏:Applying For College-School-Process 申请大学-学校-过程

College education is a big investment for anyone.Each choice leads to a different destination.Which road should you take? 对于任何人来说,大学教育都是一项大的投资。每一项选择都可能会引导你到不同的目的地。你该选择哪一条路呢? You create your own choices through researching.Find the universtites that will provide the deucation you want.This task can take a while,but it ...

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英文欣赏:The School学校

Part 3 The School 第三部分 学校 Yes, study comes hard to you, my dear Enrico, as your mother says. I do not yet see you set out for school with that resolute mind and that smiling face which I should like. You are still intractable. But listen; reflect a little! What a miserable, despicable thing your day would be if you did not go to school! At the end of a week you ...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(1)

When I opened Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, my goal was simple: open a school to close a prison. 在2010年我开办了莫特馆桥学院,我的目标很简单:创办一所学校,以关闭一所监狱。 Now to some, this was an audacious goal, because our school is located in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn 一些人可能会认为,这是个大胆的目标,原因在于我们的学校位于布鲁克林的布朗斯维尔...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(11)

But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. 但医生在出去时,把在办公桌上的收音机打开了。 And when they got out, he said to her mother, “Just stand and watch her.” 在他们走出房间后,医生对她妈妈说: “我们就站在这儿观察一下她。” And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music. 他...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(3)

It was a cold day in January when my scholar, Vidal Chastanet, met Brandon Stanton, the founder of the popular blog “Humans of New York.” 那是一月寒冷的一天,我的学生维达·沙塔遇到了布兰登·斯坦顿,这位热门博客“纽约众生”创始人。 Brandon shared the story of a young man from Brownsville who had witnessed violence firsthand, by witnessing a man being thrown off...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(7)

And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn’t hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. 我倾慕大学教授的学识,但我们不应该用这样一个头衔作为衡量一个人成功与否的分水岭。 They’re just a form of life, another form of life. 其实大学教授只是360行中的一行。 But they’re rather curious, and I say this out of affection...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(6)

But something strikes you when you move to America and travel around the world: 但搬到美国后,有些事使我印象深刻: Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. 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。 Doesn’t matter where you go. You’d think it would be otherwise, but it isn̵...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(4)

What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. 以上例子的共同点就是孩子们愿意冒险。 If they don’t know, they’ll have a go. Am I right? 对于未知的事物,他们愿意去尝试。难道不是吗? They’re not frightened of being wrong. I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. 即使尝试的结果是错误的,...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(1)

Good morning. How are you? It’s been great, hasn’t it? 早上好,还好吗? 很好吧,对不对? I’ve been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I’m leaving. 我已经飘飘然了! 我要飘走了。 There have been three themes running through the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about. 这次会议有三个主题,这三个主题贯穿会议始终,并且...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(2)

But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. 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”。 Because it’s one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? 因为这些事情都涉及个人的隐私,对吗? Like religion, and money and other things. 比如宗教信仰,薪水等。 So I have a big interest in education, and I think we ...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(5)

How annoying would that be? “Must try harder.” 多么不可思议。“你要努力学习”。 Being sent to bed by his dad, you know, to Shakespeare, “Go to bed, now! And put the pencil down.” 你能想象他父亲边说边把他抱上床,“现在该睡觉了,放下笔。 “And stop speaking like that. It’s confusing everybody.” 别再写那些东西了,别人都看不...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(4)

The revolution in education is happening in our schools, with adults who provide love, structure, support and knowledge. 教育的改革正在我们学校进行,有成年人为他们提供爱,精心组织的体系,支持还有知识。 These are the things that inspire children. But it is not an easy task. 这些都将对我们的孩子有所启发。但这并不能简单的说到做到。 And there are high demands within...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(9)

We know three things about intelligence. One, it’s diverse. 培养人才有三个原则。第一,多样化。 We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it. 我们认知世界的角度不同。 We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically. 有的从视觉角度,有的从听觉角度,有的从美学角度。 We think in abstract terms, we think in movement. 有...

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TED演讲:为了关闭监狱 就要创办学校(2)

It was evident when I would ask my 13-year-old, “Young man, where do you see yourself in five years?” 我问一个13岁的孩子,“年轻人,你认为五年后你会怎么样?”答案似乎显而易见。 And his response: “I don’t know if I’m gonna live that long.” 而他的回答是:“我不知道我能否活那么长时间。” Or to have a young woman say to me that she ha...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(12)

What I think it comes to is this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson. 现在,我想说的是:AL Gore曾在这里做过一次演讲,内容是关于生态学以及Rachel Carson引发的那次环境保护运动。 I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, 我相信对于未来,我们的唯一出路是贯彻一种新...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(8)

And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, 第二点,学术能力已经成为衡量好学生的主要标准, because the universities designed the system in their image. 这种标准是那些大学自己制定的。 If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. 只要...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(10)

And the third thing about intelligence is, it’s distinct. 培养好学生的第三个原则就是个性化。 I’m doing a new book at the moment called “Epiphany,” 我目前在写本书,书名叫《顿悟》, which is based on a series of interviews with people about how they discovered their talent. 素材来自一些访谈,访谈内容是关于怎样发现自身的才能。 I’...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(3)

I heard a great story recently — I love telling it — of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. 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。 She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, 小女孩只有六岁,她坐在教室的后排,正在画画, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing l...

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TED演讲之身体语言 用"云"建立一所学校(9)

I got the camera angle wrong. 我把相机角度弄错了。 That one is just amateur stuff, but what she was saying, as you could make out, was about neurons, with her hands were like that, 那是张业余作品,但是她说话的内容,你们能听得出来,是关于神经元的,她的手那样比划, and she was saying neurons communicate. At 12. 她正在说神经元之间的信息传递。12岁。 So what ar...

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