TED演讲中英1篇,扼杀创造力

0:11Good morning. How are you? (Laughter) It's been great, hasn't it? I've been blown awayby the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes runningthrough the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is theextraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we've had and inall of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that it's put usin a place where we have no idea what's going to happen, in terms of the future. No ideahow this may play out.0:56I have an interest in education. Actually, what I find is everybody has an interest ineducation. Don't you? I find this very interesting. If you're at a dinner party, and you sayyou work in education -- Actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly. (Laughter) Ifyou work in education, you're not asked. (Laughter) And you're never asked back,curiously. That's strange to me. But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, theysay, "What do you do?" and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run fromtheir face. They're like, "Oh my God," you know, "Why me?" (Laughter) "My one night outall week." (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? Like religion, andmoney and other things. So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. Wehave a huge vested interest in it, partly because it's education that's meant to take us intothis future that we can't grasp. If you think of it, children starting school this year will beretiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that...