TED中英官方演讲稿-GeoffreyCanada_2013S我们的那些烂学校，我受够你们了!.docxVIP

1.Im a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me, she said, Geoff, you watch the TED Talks. 我有点紧张，因为我的妻子Yvonne对我说： “Geoff, 你看TED演讲的，对吧？”2.I said, Yes, honey, I love TED Talks. 我说:对啊，亲爱的，我喜欢TED演讲。3.She said, You know, theyre like, really smart, talented --  她说：“那些演讲者可都是很聪明、很有才能的人哦！”4.I said, I know, I know. (Laughter) She said, They dont want, like, the angry black man. 我说：“这我知道、知道。” （笑声） 她说：“那观众不会喜欢你这个怒气冲冲的黑老头吧？”5.(Laughter) So I said, No, Im gonna be good, Honey, Im gonna be good. I am. （笑声） 因此，我对她说：”放心好了，我不会发火的，亲爱的！“ ”我会控制我的情绪的，我会的！”6.But I am angry. (Laughter) And the last time I looked, Im -- (Applause) So this is why Im excited but Im angry. 可是，我还是火大了。（笑声） 最后我还是生气了不是？ （掌声） 这就是我兴奋的原因，可我还是生气了。7.This year, there are going to be millions of our children that were going to needlessly lose, that we could -- right now, we could save them all. 今年，将会有成百上千万的学生 完全没必要地，在我们的手中流失， 而其实，我们现在还可以拉他们一把的。8.You saw the quality of the educators who were here. 我们的师资质量各位是有目共睹的。9.Do not tell me they could not reach those kids and save them. I know they could. 你可别对我说我们的教育工作者没法帮那些孩子 和拉他们一把。我知道，他们可以的。10.It is absolutely possible. 他们完全可以做到的。11.Why havent we fixed this? 可为什么我们没去做这件事呢？12.Those of us in education have held on to a business plan that we dont care how many millions of young people fail, were going to continue to do the same thing that didnt work, 我们有些教育工作者已经习惯墨守成规 我们不太在乎有几百万的学生学无所成， 而我们还乐此不疲地继续做着那些无用功，13.and nobody is getting crazy about it -- right? -- enough to say, Enough is enough. 而从来都没有人因此生过气，发过火，对不？ 这些足够我说：“我受够了”14.So heres a business plan that simply does not make any sense. 所以，我想讲一下这种毫无意义的教育模式15.You know, I grew up in the inner city, and there were kids who were failing in schools 56 years ago when I first went to school, and those schools are still lousy today, 56 years later. 要知道，我是在市区长大的， 当时，很多学生在学业上就已经一事无成了 那可是在56年前，当时我刚开始读书， 而那些学校在56年后的今天仍然还很糟糕、很烂。16.And you know something about a lousy school?