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这是一个4年前的演讲，但现在对我们来讲还是一针见血、前卫和意义重大的。 
我在想，和中国文化强调继承和全息对比，西方强调的创造性为什么重要呢？简单来说，人有惰性和体制化的自然倾向，通常会被各种杂念妄想所牵制——我们是自己的最大敌人，而创造性，就是为了打破这些而被赋予了其意义的。而Ken所说的创造性，就是打破人类对自身价值的概念，人类对自己智力的开发有如对矿山的开发，这真是意义所在吗？

（若不能播放，到以下网址：http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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I believe our only hope for the future
is to adopt a new conception of human ecology,
one in which we start to reconstitute our conception
of the richness of human capacity.
Our education system has mined our minds in the way
that we strip-mine the earth: for a particular commodity.
And for the future, it won't serve us.
We have to rethink the fundamental principles
on which we're educating our children. There was
a wonderful quote by Jonas Salk, who said,
"If all the insects were to disappear from the earth,
within 50 years all life on Earth would end.
If all human beings disappeared from the earth,
within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."
And he's right.
What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination.
We have to be careful now that we use this gift wisely,
and that we avent some of the scenarios that we've talked about. And the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are, and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate thier whole being, so they can face this future. By the way- we may not see this future, but they will. And our job is to help them make something of it.