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哈佛最有力毕业演讲:超越标准化考试的奴役
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这几天网上热传中国学生何江登上哈佛大学毕业演讲台,是哈佛第365次毕业典礼中的首位中国学生代表。同台演讲的还有美国学生、哈佛教育学院毕业生多迈万·利文斯顿(Donovan Livingston),他用诗歌的形式讲述教育的真谛——每个学生都是一颗星星,教育的目的是让星星闪烁,并直指应试教育、标准化考试的脊梁骨。


这篇演讲,被称作哈佛毕业典礼中最有力量的演说,全世界已有千万人点赞,包括美国民主党总统参选人希拉里、著名影星贾斯汀·汀布莱克都在转发、推荐。在飞机上快速翻译这5分钟的诗歌演讲,请大家分享,并请包涵翻译的不准确之处。





超越标准化考试的奴役


“教育,超越了人类起源的所有设备,

是协调不同状况人们的伟大均衡器”。

霍瑞思·曼1848年的名言(注1),

我那时没法读到,也没法写出来。

但任何回归过去的冲动,

都将受到作死的惩罚。

一代又一代我们坚信知识的力量无限

我们也从不怀疑钥匙的执掌角色——

知识与信息的卫士。

不幸的是我更多地看到分裂与控制

在教育体系中对现实可憎的误判。

在一些人眼中,教室和平台的唯一差别是时间。

有多少次,我们的感觉就像那句名言所说——

自己也不过是很多臆造词汇的标识符——

什么“多元化,包含性”。

有很长一段时间我深感孤独,就像是独行客——

一个孤独绽放的在突破信条的荆棘小道上的野花。

或者已成为不公正边线上的一棵蒺藜。

 

国教育家、政治家霍瑞思·曼


捣乱,漫谈,一个心烦意乱者,

怀着超越意识极限的炽热——

超越你的课程,超越你的标准。

我站在这里,就是一个爱与痛的宣言,

静脉中跳跃着革命的激情。

我是一个与众不同的早熟的奇花异果,

我是筑梦者,我是梦想成真的化身。

我是行动者,美国人不该忘却的传统合金。

我的过去,不允许我静静地坐着,

我的躯体,还有我的思想

似乎无法承载我高远的抱负。

作为教育者,其实并不是提高你声音的分贝,

在系统的链条上窸窣作响。

解除不切实的念想,打开锁链,

用伐木者般的意志切除负担,

贫困与特权的负担,

政策与无知的负担。


 

我在7年级的时候帕科女士告诉我,

“多迈万,我们能把你超载的能量用于好事上”。

接着她把我引导到我倾听自己的心声。

她给我一个阶梯,一个平台。

她告诉我我们的故事就是梯子,

这个梯子让我们更容易触摸到星星。

所以开始攀援,开始捕捉星星,

坚持不懈地攀援,不弃不离地捕捉。

把你的情绪释放到更深层,注入你的灵魂,

用你发光的魅力点亮世界。

教育需要伽利略式的耐心。

今天,当我注视我学生的眼睛,

我看到的是一个个星座。

如果你花时间与每个星星交流,

你能发现他们才华的真实形状——

即便在他们最黯淡的时分都在闪光。

 

我从我每个学生的眼中看到,

他们像银河系中的星星一样闪着同样的光亮,

或者像吉萨金字塔一样熠熠夺目。

我看到,还有一种光束同样闪烁,

那道光曾指引哈丽特·塔布曼走向自由(注2)。

我看到,他们的面具和恶作剧下面,

存在着真切的挫折,

以及被标准化考试奴役的心灵。

 
哈丽特·塔布曼是美国废奴运动领导人,有“人间摩西”之誉


实际上,我们每个人都不想平庸。

我们生来就是彗星,

冲向浩淼的时空——

在撞向任何目标时留下踪影。

造物主提醒我们一些奇迹就要发生——

(教育)不可磨灭的影响将震惊世界。

难道我们不是天文学家?

正在寻找下一颗流星飞过!

我怀揣把课本内容变成宇宙飞船的理想教书——

把磨难变成望远镜,

让孩子们在原点上看到未来的潜能。

不公正会告诉他们自己就是星星,

不用怯惧围绕在他们身边的黑夜。

不公正告诉他们教育就是钥匙,

即便你不断换锁也能一一打开。

 

教育不是均衡器——

相反,它是美国梦临近前的睡眠。

所以,醒来,醒来吧,调高你的音量,

直到你修补好每个孩子破碎的天空。

惊醒每个孩子,让他们知道与生俱来的才能。

我在教室的黑洞中已经待了很久了,

吸收所有东西,就是不让我的光亮散射。

但那样的日子已经过去,我属于群星之间。

你是如此,他们也是如此,

站在一起,我们可以激励伟大的星系

一代比一代更耀眼。

要知道,天空不是极限,

这仅仅是开始。

(让我们一起)发射升空!


注1:美国教育家、政治家霍瑞思·曼对于美国公共教育发展具有先驱性作用,被誉为“美国公共教育之父”。


注2:哈丽特·塔布曼是美国废奴运动领导人,有“人间摩西”之誉,她曾冒着生命危险带领马里兰州的黑奴到安全地带,然后通过铁路到北方寻找自由。


 Transcend the enslavement to your standardized assessments英文原文


Education then, beyond all other devices ofhuman origin,

Is a great equalizer of the conditions ofmen.’ – Horace Mann, 1848.

At the time of his remarks I couldn’t read— couldn’t write.

Any attempt to do so, punishable by death.

For generations we have known ofknowledge’s infinite power.

Yet somehow, we’ve never questioned thekeeper of the keys —

The guardians of information.

 

Unfortunately, I’ve seen more dividing andconquering

In this order of operations — a heinousmiscalculation of reality.

For some, the only difference between aclassroom and a plantation is time.

How many times must we be made to feel likequotas —

Like tokens in coined phrases? —

‘Diversity. Inclusion’

There are days I feel like one, like only —

A lonely blossom in a briar patch of brokenpromises.

But I’ve always been a thorn in the side ofinjustice.

 

Disruptive. Talkative. A distraction.

With a passion that transcends the confinesof my consciousness —

Beyond your curriculum, beyond yourstandards.

I stand here, a manifestation of love andpain,

With veins pumping revolution.

I am the strange fruit that grew too ripefor the poplar tree.

I am a DREAM Act, Dream Deferred incarnate.

I am a movement – an amalgam of memoriesAmerica would care to forget

My past, alone won’t allow me to sit still.

So my body, like the mind

Cannot be contained.

 

As educators, rather than raising yourvoices

Over the rustling of our chains,

Take them off. Un-cuff us.

Unencumbered by the lumbering weight

Of poverty and privilege,

Policy and ignorance.

 

I was in the 7th grade, when Ms. Parkertold me,

‘Donovan, we can put your excess energy togood use!’

And she introduced me to the sound of myown voice.

She gave me a stage. A platform.

She told me that our stories are ladders

That make it easier for us to touch thestars.

So climb and grab them.

Keep climbing. Grab them.

Spill your emotions in the big dipper andpour out your soul.

Light up the world with your luminousallure.

 

To educate requires Galileo-like patience.

Today, when I look my students in the eyes,all I see are constellations.

If you take the time to connect the dots,

You can plot the true shape of their genius—

Shining in their darkest hour.

  

I look each of my students in the eyes,

And see the same light that aligned Orion’sBelt

And the pyramids of Giza.

I see the same twinkle

That guided Harriet to freedom.

I see them. Beneath their masks andmischief,

Exists an authentic frustration;

An enslavement to your standardizedassessments.

 

At the core, none of us were meant to becommon.

We were born to be comets,

Darting across space and time —

Leaving our mark as we crash intoeverything.

A crater is a reminder that somethingamazing happened here —

An indelible impact that shook up theworld.

Are we not astronomers — looking for thenext shooting star?

I teach in hopes of turning content, intorocket ships —

Tribulations into telescopes,

So a child can see their potential fromright where they stand.

An injustice is telling them they are stars

Without acknowledging night that surroundsthem.

Injustice is telling them education is thekey

While you continue to change the locks.

 

Education is no equalizer —

Rather, it is the sleep that precedes theAmerican Dream.

So wake up — wake up! Lift your voices

Until you’ve patched every hole in achild’s broken sky.

Wake up every child so they know of theircelestial potential.

I’ve been a Black hole in the classroom forfar too long;

Absorbing everything, without allowing mylight escape.

But those days are done. I belong among thestars.

And so do you. And so do they.

Together, we can inspire galaxies ofgreatness

For generations to come.

No, sky is not the limit.

It is only the beginning.

Lift off.



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