2014.08.09

 

教育與創意

Education and Creativity

我今天要談的與貫穿這次研討會的三個相關主題。

首先這些演說與這裡每一個人所涵蓋領域的廣度與歧異度，是展現人類創意的傑出典範。

第二，這樣的創意讓人了解到，我們根本不能預知未來，我們不知道未來是何種面貌。我對教育議題有濃厚的興趣。事實上，在場的每個人都對教育有興趣，不是嗎？我覺得很有趣的是，如果你問大家受過甚麼教育？每個人都滔滔不絕說個沒完，因為這是影響人們極深的主題之一，對吧？就像宗教、金錢和其他事情一樣。我個人對教育極感興趣，我想我們都是，大家都對教育興趣濃厚，部分原因是：教育可以幫助我們掌握難以理解的未來。

試想，今年開始上學的小孩，將在2080年退休，沒人會知道，儘管我們在過去的日子探討各種專業知識，二十年後世界會變怎樣，但我們本來應該是要教育這些孩子為將來做準備，我認為未來的不可預知性是極為特殊的。

第三部分是我們都仍同意，孩童擁有驚人的潛力，他們創新的潛力，學生的表現令人驚豔，不是嗎？我們目睹了學生能做到的事。孩子是優秀的，但我認為在所有的孩子裡，並非只有復興的孩子做得到。我們看到的是已經發揮才能的部分，非常專注於發揮天賦才能，我認為，所有孩子都天賦異稟，或許都被我們殘酷的浪費了。

There have been three themes, haven’t there, running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about.

The first is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all the presentations that we’ve had and in all the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it.

The second is that it’s put us in a place where we have no idea what’s going to happen, in terms of the future. No idea how this may play out. I have an interest in education actually, what I find is everybody has an interest in education. Don’t you ? I find this very interesting. If you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. Because it’s one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? Like religion, and money and other things. I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

If you think of it , children starting school this year, will be retiring in 2080. Nobody has a clue despite all the expertise that’s been on parade for the past days, what the world will look like in twenty years’ time. And yet we’re meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.

And the third part of this is that we’ve all agreed, nonetheless on the really extraordinary capacities that children have their capacities for innovation, I mean, student was a marvel, wasn’t they? Just seeing what they could do. And student’s exceptional, but I think they’re not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood. What we have there are person of extraordinary dedication who found a talent. And my contention is, all students have tremendous talents. Perhaps we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.