TED英语演讲稿：大人可以跟孩子学什么？

1、TED英语演讲稿：大人可以跟孩子学什么？美国华盛顿州西雅图市华裔女童邹奇奇(英文名Adra Svitak)，某年被美国媒体誉为“世界上最聪明的孩子”，她比凤姐牛多了，3岁时就开始阅读各种书籍，从4岁起写下了400多篇故事和诗歌，8岁时出版的故事集飞扬的手指轰动美国，其中包含的300多篇故事大多以中世纪为背景，从古埃及写到了文艺复兴，文中透露的政治、教和教育见解，思想深刻，文思严谨。邹奇奇也被美国广播公司誉为“美国文坛小巨人”。Nw, I want t start with a questin: When was the last time yu were called childish? Fr

2、 kids like me, being called childish can burrence. Every time we make irratinal demands, ehibit irrespnsible behavir, r display any ther signs f being nrmal American citizens, we are called childish, which really bthers me. After all, take a lk at these events: Imperialism and clnizatin, wrld wars,

3、Gerge W. Bush. Ask yurself: Whs respnsible? Adults.Nw, what have kids dne? Well, Anne Frank tuched millins with her pwerful accunt f the Hlcaust, Ruby Bridges helped end segregatin in the United States, and, mst recently, Charlie Simpsn helped t raise 120,000 punds fr Haiti n his little bike. S, as

4、yu can see evidenced by such eamples, age has abslutely nthing t d with it. The traits the wrd childish addresses are seen s ften in adults that we shuld ablish this age-discriminatry wrd when it cmes t criticizing behavir assciated with irrespnsibility and irratinal thinking. (Applause)Thank yu. Th

5、en again, whs t say that certain types f irratinal thinking arent eactly what the wrld needs? Maybe yuve had grand plans befre, but stpped yurself, thinking: Thats impssible r that csts t much r that wnt benefit me. Fr better r wrse, we kids arent hampered as much when it cmes t thinking abut reasns

6、 why nt t d things. Kids can be full f inspiring aspiratins and hpeful thinking, like my wish that n ne went hungry r that everything were free kind f utpia. Hw many f yu still dream like that and believe in the pssibilities? Smetimes a knwledge f histry and the past failures f utpian ideals can be

7、a burden because yu knw that if everything were free, that the fd stcks wuld becme depleted, and scarce and lead t chas. n the ther hand, we kids still dream abut perfectin. And thats a gd thing because in rder t make anything a reality, yu have t dream abut it first.In many ways, ur audacity t imag

8、ine helps push the bundaries f pssibility. Fr instance, the Museum f Glass in Tacma, Washingtn, my hme state - yh Washingtn - (Applause) has a prgram called Kids Design Glass, and kids draw their wn ideas fr glass art. Nw, the resident artist said they gt sme f their best ideas thrugh the prgram bec

9、ause kids dnt think abut the limitatins f hw hard it can be t blw glass int certain shapes. They just think f gd ideas. Nw, when yu think f glass, yu might think f clrful Chihuly designs r maybe Italian vases, but kids challenge glass artists t g beynd that int the realm f brken-hearted snakes and b

10、acn bys, wh yu can see has meat visin. (Laughter)Nw, ur inherent wisdm desnt have t be insiders knwledge. Kids already d a lt f learning frm adults, and we have a lt t share. I think that adults shuld start learning frm kids. Nw, I d mst f my speaking in frnt f an educatin crwd, teachers and student

11、s, and I like this analgy. It shuldnt just be a teacher at the head f the classrm telling students d this, d that. The students shuld teach their teachers. Learning between grwn ups and kids shuld be reciprcal. The reality, unfrtunately, is a little different, and it has a lt t d with trust, r a lac

12、k f it.Nw, if yu dnt trust smene, yu place restrictins n them, right. If I dubt my lder sisters ability t pay back the 10 percent interest I established n her last lan, Im ging t withhld her ability t get mre mney frm me until she pays it back. (Laughter) True stry, by the way. Nw, adults seem t hav

13、e a prevalently restrictive attitude twards kids frm every dnt d that, dnt d this in the schl handbk, t restrictins n schl internet use. As histry pints ut, regimes becme ppressive when theyre fearful abut keeping cntrl. And, althugh adults may nt be quite at the level f ttalitarian regimes, kids ha

14、ve n, r very little, say in making the rules, when really the attitude shuld be reciprcal, meaning that the adult ppulatin shuld learn and take int accunt the wishes f the yunger ppulatin.Nw, whats even wrse than restrictin is that adults ften underestimate kids abilities. We lve challenges, but whe

15、n epectatins are lw, trust me, we will sink t them. My wn parents had anything but lw epectatins fr me and my sister. kay, s they didnt tell us t becme dctrs r lawyers r anything like that, but my dad did read t us abut Aristtle and pineer germ fighters when lts f ther kids were hearing The Wheels n

16、 the Bus G Rund and Rund. Well, we heard that ne t, but Pineer Germ Fighters ttally rules. (Laughter)I lved t write frm the age f fur, and when I was si my mm bught me my wn laptp equipped with Micrsft Wrd. Thank yu Bill Gates and thank yu Ma. I wrte ver 300 shrt stries n that little laptp, and I wa

17、nted t get published. Instead f just scffing at this heresy that a kid wanted t get published, r saying wait until yure lder, my parents were really supprtive. Many publishers were nt quite s encuraging. ne large childrens publisher irnically saying that they didnt wrk with children. Childrens publi

18、sher nt wrking with children? I dnt knw, yure kind f alienating a large client there. (Laughter) Nw, ne publisher, Actin Publishing, was willing t take that leap and trust me, and t listen t what I had t say. They published my first bk, Flying Fingers, - yu see it here - and frm there n, its gne t s

19、peaking at hundreds f schls, keynting t thusands f educatrs, and finally, tday, speaking t yu.I appreciate yur attentin tday, because t shw that yu truly care, yu listen. But theres a prblem with this rsy picture f kids being s much better than adults. Kids grw up and becme adults just like yu. (Lau

20、ghter) r just like yu, really? The gal is nt t turn kids int yur kind f adult, but rather better adults than yu have been, which may be a little challenging cnsidering yur guys credentials, but the way prgress happens is because new generatins and new eras grw and develp and becme better than the pr

21、evius nes. Its the reasn were nt in the Dark Ages anymre. N matter yur psitin f place in life, it is imperative t create pprtunities fr children s that we can grw up t blw yu away. (Laughter)Adults and fellw TEDsters, yu need t listen and learn frm kids and trust re frm us. Yu must lend an ear tday,

22、 because we are the leaders f tmrrw, which means were ging t be taking care f yu when yure ld and senile. N, just kidding. N, really, we are ging t be the net generatin, the nes wh will bring this wrld frward. And, in case yu dnt think that this really has meaning fr yu, remember that clning is pssi

23、ble, and that invlves ging thrugh childhd again, in which case, yull want t be heard just like my generatin. Nw, the wrld needs pprtunities fr new leaders and new ideas. Kids need pprtunities t lead and succeed. Are yu ready t make the match? Because the wrlds prblems shuldnt be the human familys he

24、irlm.Thank yu. (Applause) Thank yu. Thank yu.首先我要问大家一个问题： 上一回别人说你幼稚是什么时候? 像我这样的小孩， 可能经常会被人说成是幼稚。每一次我们提出不合理的要求， 做出不负责任的行为， 或者展现出有别于 普通美国公民的惯常行为之时， 我们就被说成是幼稚。这让我很不服气。首先，让我们来回望下这些事件： 帝国主义和殖民主义， 世界大战，小布什。请你们扪心自问下：这些该归咎于谁?是大人。而小孩呢，做了些什么? 安妮弗兰克(Anne Frank)对大屠杀强有力的叙述打动了数百万人的心。鲁比布里奇斯为美国种族隔离的终结作出了贡献。另外，最近还有一

25、个例子，查理辛普森(Charlie Simpsn)骑自行车 为海地募得 万英镑。所以，这些例子证明了年龄与行为完全没有关系。幼稚这个词所对应的特点 是常常可以从大人身上看到， 由此我们在批评 不负责和非理性的相关行为时， 应停止使用这个年龄歧视的词。(掌声)谢谢!话说回来，谁能说 我们这个世界不正是需要 某些类型的非理性思维吗? 也许你以前有过宏大的计划， 但却半途而废，心想： 这个不可能，或代价太高 或这对我不利。不管是好是坏，我们小孩子 在思考不做某事的理由时，不太受这些考量的影响。小孩可能会有满脑子的奇思妙想 和积极的想法， 例如我希望没有人挨饿 或者所有东西都是免费的，有点像乌托邦的理

26、念。你们当中有多少人还会有这样的梦想 并相信其可能性? 有时候对历史 及对乌托邦的了解， 可能是一种负担，因为你知道假如所有东西都是免费的， 食物储备会被清空， 而缺失将会导致混乱。另一方面， 我们小孩还对完美抱有希望。这是件好事，因为要将任何事情变为现实， 你首先得心怀梦想。在很多方面，我们的大胆想象 拓宽了可能性的疆界。例如，华盛顿州塔可马市的玻璃博物馆， 我的家乡华盛顿州你好! (掌声)这个博物馆里有一个项目叫“儿童玻璃设计”， 小孩们自由创作自己的玻璃作品。后来，驻馆艺术家说他们所有的一些极佳灵感就来自这个项目， 因为小孩不去理会 吹出不同形状玻璃的难度限制 他们只是构思好的点子。当说

27、到玻璃的时候，你们可能 想到的是奇胡利(Chihuly)色彩丰富的玻璃设计 或意大利花瓶，但小孩子敢于挑战玻璃艺术家，并超越他们 进入心碎蛇 和火腿男孩的领地看到了吗，火腿男孩有“肉视力”哦 (笑声)我们先天的智慧 堪比内行人的知识。小孩已经从大人身上学到许多， 而我们也有很多东西可以和大人共享。我认为大人应该开始向小孩学习听我演讲的观众大都是教育圈子里的， 这其中有老师和学生。我喜欢这个类比。不应该只是老师站在教室讲台上 告诉学生做这个做那个。学生亦应教育他们的老师。成人和儿童之间 应该互相学习不幸的是，于现实里，情况是截然不同的。这跟信任的关系很大，或者说是缺乏信任的结果。如果你不信任某人

28、，你就给他们设限，对吧。如果我怀疑我姐姐没有能力 偿还我给她的上一笔贷款的 百分之十的利息时， 我将要限制她再向我借钱， 直到她还清借款为止。(笑声) 顺便提一下，这是个真实的例子。大人呢，似乎普遍地 对小孩持限制性的态度， 从学校手册里的 “不能做这个”、“不能做那个” 到学校互联网使用的各种限制性规定。历史告诉我们，当政体害怕统治失控时， 它就会变得暴虐。虽然大人可能不会 像独裁政权一样心狠手辣， 但小孩在制定规则方面是几乎没有话语权的。而正确的态度应该是两者相互尊重的， 也就是说成人群体应该了解 并仔细对待年幼群体的 愿望。然而比限制更糟糕的是， 大人常常低估小孩的能力。我们喜欢挑战，但假如大人对我们期望很低的话， 说真的，我们就会不思进取。我自己的父母对我和姐姐 抱很高的期望。当然，他们没有让我们立志成为医生 或