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Ken Robinson: How to escape educations death valley 如何逃出教育的死亡谷 中英对照： I moved to America 12 years ago with my wife Terry and our two kids. Actually, truthfully, we moved to Los Angeles -- (Laughter) -- thinking we were moving to America, but anyway, its a short plane ride from Los Angeles to America. I got here 12 years ago, and when I got here, I was told various things, like, Americans dont get irony. Have you come across this idea? Its not true. Ive traveled the whole length and breadth of this country. I have found no evidence that Americans dont get irony. Its one of those cultural myths, like, The British are reserved. I dont know why people think this. Weve invaded every country weve encountered. (Laughter) But its not true Americans dont get irony, but I just want you to know that thats what people are saying about you behind your back. You know, so when you leave living rooms in Europe, people say, thankfully, nobody was ironic in your presence. 12年前，我刚来到美国的时候，当地人给我讲了许多东西，像“美国人不懂讽刺。” 你们也有这种想法吗？这很荒谬，我踏遍了美国的山山水水，却从未找到任何证据来证明美国人不懂讽刺， 这属于一种文化迷思。就如同说“英国人很矜持”一样，我真不知道人们为何会这样想，英国曾侵略过每一个与其不期而遇的国度啊。（笑声） 但是说美国人不懂讽刺确实与事实不符 ，其实我只是想令大家知道，别人在背后是怎样谈论你的。在欧洲，你离开客厅时，人们会说，幸好，没人当着你的面讽刺。 But I knew that Americans get irony when I came across that legislation No Child Left Behind. Because whoever thought of that title gets irony, dont they, because -- (Laughter) (Applause) — because its leaving millions of children behind. Now I can see thats not a very attractive name for legislation: Millions of Children Left Behind. I can see that. Whats the plan? Well, we propose to leave millions of children behind, and heres how its going to work. 在我偶然听说“不让一个孩子掉队”这条立法时，我就知道了美国人是懂得讽刺的。想出这条立法标题的人，就很懂得讽刺，难道不是吗，因为-- （笑声）（掌声） 因为数百万的儿童被撇在后面了，我从中看到的是一个并不招人待见的名号，“数百万的孩子掉队了”，显而易见，具体有什么计划呢？我们提议，把数百万儿童撇到后面，这就是它如何运作的。 And its working beautifully. In some parts of the country, 60 percent of kids drop out of high school. In the Native American communities, its 80 percent of kids. If we halved that number,