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展开学习革命 Ken RobinsonVery many people go through their whole lives, having no real sense of what their talents may be or if they have any to speak of. I met all kinds of people who don’t think they are really good at anything. They don’t enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives, getting on with it. They get no great pleasure from what they do. They endure it rather than enjoy it and wait for the weekend. But I also meet people who love what they do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Because this isn’t what they do, it is who they are. But it is not true of enough people. And I think there are many possible explanations for it. And high among them is education. Because education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. 因为现在的教育在某种程度上, 使许多人远离了自身的天赋And human resources are like natural resources. They are often buried deep. You have to go looking for them. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. 你不得不创造它们自我展现的环境 And you might imagine education would be the way that happens. But too often, it is not. Every education system is being reformed at the moment. And it’s not enough. Reform is no use any more, because that’s simply improving a broken model. What we need is not evolution进化；演变, but a revolution革命；彻底变革in education.Innovation is hard, because it means doing something that people don’t find very easy for the most part. 革命是艰辛的, 因为它意味着去做人们在大多数情况下不愿意做的事情It means challenging what we take for granted. Abraham Lincoln once said: the dogmas教条of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the accasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall 释放；解放ourselves and then we shall save our country. 平静的过去的教条和暴风雨般的现代是不相匹的。此刻困难堆积如山, 我们必须和时代一起进步。面对新的情况, 我们必须重新思考,重新行动。我们必须解放自己, 然后才能拯救国家。 I love that word, disenthrall. Do you know what it means? That there are ideas that all of us are enthralled着迷的；被吸引的 to, whi