很多同学会抱怨托福素材的运用，我们发现看美剧笑过后不涨知识，看纪录片时间太长坐不住，更苦恼的是托福考试想训练的英文课堂应用能力未曾见长。难道我们只能幽怨的手捧着OG，用电脑练习TPO，迟迟不能和托福分手吗？
当然不是，因为还有这样一个视频栏目—TED。
在这里，你可以看到，Bill Gates是带着一只蚊子来做演讲，Benjamin Zander现场演绎肖邦的夜曲……除了贴近时代，风趣幽默这些特点以外，最最重要的一点是TED可以补充托福背景知识，是提高托福听力获取信息能力的利器！
今天给大家推荐这部来自Ken Robinson， 以“Do schools kill creativity?”为主题的演讲，十年之后，依旧是TED最受欢迎的视频，没有之一，内容非常精彩！
Do schools kill creativity?
学校是否扼杀了我们的创造力
三大主题
Theme One
The extraordinary evidence of human creativity.
Theme Two
We have no idea what's going to happen, in terms of the future.
Theme Three
Children's extraordinary capacities for innovation.
核心内容 1
Children are not frightened of being wrong. And I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is，if we're not prepared to be wrong, we'll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes.And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
核心内容 2
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects.At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts.
Everywhere on Earth. And in pretty much every system too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance.There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics.
Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side.
Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason. Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas.
Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top.
And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence,because the universities designed the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.
可以回答的口语/写作话题
• Describe one way to improve the national education system.
• Describe a problem your country is facing now.
• If a kid is going to start his first year in college, what suggestion do you have?
• Agree or disagree that artists should all be creative?
• Agree or disagree that the success of a school depends on it’s book collection?
• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is never too late for an old person to receive higher education and to get a university degree. Use specific reasons to support your answer.
Robinson是一个极其出色的演讲大师，整个视频让人从头笑到尾，但在让人发笑的同时也发人深省。其实他讲的不是教育，不是学校，而是更诚实地面对人类自己。
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