Schools学校September is traditionally the end of summer and the beginning of autumn in the UK.传统来讲，9月是夏末秋初的月份，It is also the month when children go back to school after their long summer holidays,也是孩子们在结束漫长的暑假后回到学校的月份。but what do you actually know about British schools?但是，你实际上又对英国的学校了解多少呢？There are tw

College education is a big investment for anyone.Each choice leads to a different destination.Which road should you take?对于任何人来说，大学教育都是一项大的投资。每一项选择都可能会引导你到不同的目的地。你该选择哪一条路呢？You create your own choices through researching.Find the universtites that will provide the deucation you want.This task can tak

Part 3 The School第三部分 学校Yes, study comes hard to you, my dear Enrico, as your mother says. I do not yet see you set out for school with that resolute mind and that smiling face which I should like. You are still intractable. But listen reflect a little! What a miserable, despicable thing your day wo

When I opened Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, my goal was simple: open a school to close a prison.在2010年我开办了莫特馆桥学院，我的目标很简单：创办一所学校，以关闭一所监狱。Now to some, this was an audacious goal, because our school is located in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn一些人可能会认为，这是个大胆的目标，原因在于我们的学校位于布鲁克林的布朗斯维尔地区one of th

But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk.但医生在出去时，把在办公桌上的收音机打开了。And when they got out, he said to her mother, &quotJust stand and watch her.&quot在他们走出房间后，医生对她妈妈说: “我们就站在这儿观察一下她。”And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music.他们

It was a cold day in January when my scholar, Vidal Chastanet, met Brandon Stanton, the founder of the popular blog &quotHumans of New York.&quot那是一月寒冷的一天，我的学生维达·沙塔遇到了布兰登·斯坦顿，这位热门博客“纽约众生”创始人。Brandon shared the story of a young man from Brownsville who had witnessed violence firsthand, by witnessing

And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn&#39t hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement.我倾慕大学教授的学识，但我们不应该用这样一个头衔作为衡量一个人成功与否的分水岭。They&#39re just a form of life, another form of life.其实大学教授只是360行中的一行。But they&#39re rather curious, and I say this out of affection fo

But something strikes you when you move to America and travel around the world:但搬到美国后，有些事使我印象深刻：Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one.如果你周游世界，你会发现每个国家的教育体系都存在相同的学科等级制度。没有例外。Doesn&#39t matter where you go. You&#39d think it would be otherwise, but it isn&#39t.不

What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance.以上例子的共同点就是孩子们愿意冒险。If they don&#39t know, they&#39ll have a go. Am I right?对于未知的事物，他们愿意去尝试。难道不是吗？They&#39re not frightened of being wrong. I don&#39t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative.即使尝试的结果是错误的，他们也不惧怕。当然

Good morning. How are you? It&#39s been great, hasn&#39t it?早上好，还好吗? 很好吧，对不对?I&#39ve been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I&#39m leaving.我已经飘飘然了! 我要飘走了。There have been three themes running through the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about.这次会议有三个主题，这三个主题贯穿会议始终，并且和我要谈的内容有

But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall.但如果你要他们谈谈他们的受教育经历，他们会把你“钉到墙上”。Because it&#39s one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right?因为这些事情都涉及个人的隐私，对吗?Like religion, and money and other things.比如宗教信仰，薪水等。So I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do.

How annoying would that be? &quotMust try harder.&quot多么不可思议。“你要努力学习”。Being sent to bed by his dad, you know, to Shakespeare, &quotGo to bed, now! And put the pencil down.&quot你能想象他父亲边说边把他抱上床，“现在该睡觉了，放下笔。&quotAnd stop speaking like that. It&#39s confusing everybody.&quot别再写那些东西了，别人都看不懂。”Anyway, we m

The revolution in education is happening in our schools, with adults who provide love, structure, support and knowledge.教育的改革正在我们学校进行，有成年人为他们提供爱，精心组织的体系，支持还有知识。These are the things that inspire children. But it is not an easy task.这些都将对我们的孩子有所启发。但这并不能简单的说到做到。And there are high demands within an educ

We know three things about intelligence. One, it&#39s diverse.培养人才有三个原则。第一，多样化。We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it.我们认知世界的角度不同。We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically.有的从视觉角度，有的从听觉角度，有的从美学角度。We think in abstract terms, we think in movement.有的从抽象的角度，有

It was evident when I would ask my 13-year-old, &quotYoung man, where do you see yourself in five years?&quot我问一个13岁的孩子，“年轻人，你认为五年后你会怎么样？”答案似乎显而易见。And his response: &quotI don&#39t know if I&#39m gonna live that long.&quot而他的回答是：“我不知道我能否活那么长时间。”Or to have a young woman say to me that she had a lifel

What I think it comes to is this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson.现在，我想说的是：AL Gore曾在这里做过一次演讲，内容是关于生态学以及Rachel Carson引发的那次环境保护运动。I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology,我相信对于未来，我们的唯一出路是贯彻一种

And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence,第二点，学术能力已经成为衡量好学生的主要标准，because the universities designed the system in their image.这种标准是那些大学自己制定的。If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of univer

And the third thing about intelligence is, it&#39s distinct.培养好学生的第三个原则就是个性化。I&#39m doing a new book at the moment called &quotEpiphany,&quot我目前在写本书，书名叫《顿悟》，which is based on a series of interviews with people about how they discovered their talent.素材来自一些访谈，访谈内容是关于怎样发现自身的才能。I&#39m fascinated by how

I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson.最近我听到一个很不错的故事。我很愿意讲讲这个故事，说的是一个小女孩正在上绘画课。She was six, and she was at the back, drawing,小女孩只有六岁，她坐在教室的后排，正在画画，and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she d

I got the camera angle wrong.我把相机角度弄错了。That one is just amateur stuff, but what she was saying, as you could make out, was about neurons, with her hands were like that,那是张业余作品，但是她说话的内容，你们能听得出来，是关于神经元的，她的手那样比划，and she was saying neurons communicate. At 12.她正在说神经元之间的信息传递。12岁。So what are jobs going to

So that&#39s a pretty strong comment there. I said schools as we know them now, they&#39re obsolete.这里会引来热烈的讨论。我是说我们所知道的学校已经过时了。I&#39m not saying they&#39re broken. It&#39s quite fashionable to say that the education system&#39s broken.我并不是说它们已经崩溃了。现在挺时兴说教育体系已然崩溃的。It&#39s not broken. It&#39s wonderf

Well, I bumped into this whole thing completely by accident.一个偶然的机会让我想到这一切。I used to teach people how to write computer programs in New Delhi, 14 years ago.我从前教人写电脑程序，那是14年前在新德里的时候。And right next to where I used to work, there was a slum.就在我办公地点的旁边有个贫民窟。And I used to think, how on Earth are those ki

I came back to England looking for British grandmothers.我回到英国找当地的老太太们。I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time per week for free?我张贴了布告，写到：如果您是一位英国的老奶奶，如果你有宽带和摄像头，能不能每周免费给我一小时？I got 200 in the

When they saw me, they said, &quotWe want a faster processor and a better mouse.&quot当他们看到我时，他们说：“我们想要更快一点的处理器和更好一点的鼠标。”So I said, &quotHow on Earth do you know all this?&quot我说：“你们到底是怎么知道全部这些的？”And they said something very interesting to me.然后他们告诉了我一些非常有意思的事情。In an irritated voice, they said, &quot

So I tested them. I got an educational impossibility, zero to 30 percent in two months in the tropical heat with a computer under the tree in a language they didn&#39t know doing something that&#39s a decade ahead of their time.跟着我测试了他们。我做了件教育上不可能的事，从零到三十，花了两个月在这热带高温下，用树下的一台设置成他们不会的语言的电脑，做着超前他们那个时代十

So here are a couple of images from SOLEs.这里有一些自主教育环境的图像。I&#39ve tried incredible, incredible questions -- &quotWhen did the world begin? How will it end?&quot — to nine-year-olds.我尝试问过一些非常惊人的问题——“世界是从什么时候开始的？它又会怎样结束？”我问的是一个九岁的小孩。This one is about what happens to the air we breathe.这问得是我们呼吸的空气发生了什么变

But I was curious to know, what else would they do if they could do this much?但我好奇地是，他们既已达到如此水平还能干些别的什么？I started experimenting with other subjects, among them, for example, pronunciation.我开始在他们中间用别的课题作实验，例如，发音。There&#39s one community of children in southern India whose English pronunciation is rea

The children came running in. It was three feet off the ground, and they said, &quotWhat is this?&quot孩子们跑了进来。电脑离地面有3英尺，他们问：“这是什么？”And I said, &quotYeah, it&#39s, I don&#39t know. So...&quot我说：“唔，这是……我不知道。”They said, &quotWhy have you put it there?&quot他们问：“为什么你把它放在那儿？”I said, &quotJust like that.&q

It&#39s been tried all over the world, and teachers sort of stand back and say, &quotIt just happens by itself?&quot在世界各地尝试过，老师们后退着说：“它就这么自己发生了？”And I said, &quotYeah, it happens by itself.&quot&quotHow did you know that?&quot我说：“是的，自己发生了。”“你怎么知道？”I said, &quotYou won&#39t believe the children who t

The children came rushing, said, &quotWhat&#39s all this?&quot孩子们涌了过来问：“这些都是什么？”So I said, &quotIt&#39s very topical, very important. But it&#39s all in English.&quot我说：“这些都是热门的，重要的东西。但都是英文写的。”So they said, &quotHow can we understand such big English words and diagrams and chemistry?&quot他们就说：“我们怎么可