TED演讲中英1篇-扼杀创造力.doc

0:11Good morning. How are you? (Laughter) Its been great, hasnt it? Ive been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, Im leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes running through the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that weve had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that its put us in a place where we have no idea whats going to happen, in terms of the future. No idea how this may play out.0:56I have an interest in education. Actually, what I find is everybody has an interest in education. Dont you? I find this very interesting. If youre at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- Actually, youre not often at dinner parties, frankly. (Laughter) If you work in education, youre not asked. (Laughter) And youre never asked back, curiously. Thats strange to me. But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, What do you do? and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face. Theyre like, Oh my God, you know, Why me? (Laughter) My one night out all week. (Laughter) But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. Because its one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? Like religion, and money and other things. So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because its education thats meant to take us into this future that we cant grasp. If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise thats been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years time. And yet were meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.2:23And the third part of this is that weve all agreed, nonetheless, on the really extraordinary capacities that