1. ingrained in: 深根蒂固 This allow school to get to work on a productive long-term plan ─ a plan that had to break the habits that had become ingrained in the school's culture (這讓學校可以著手於長期更有效計畫，一個必須打破習慣的計畫，這些習慣已經深根於學校文化) 2. abated: 減弱 When Laurie finally got him to see that she agreed that athletics were the most important thing in his life, the discipline problems abated. (最終當Laurie讓他了解，她也同意運動對他來說是最重要的事情時，紀律的問題也減弱了) The typhoon has started to abate. (颱風開始減弱了) 3. mandate: 命令、要求 You can get anyone to do you a favor. You can't get groups follow a mandate 你可以讓任何人幫你忙。你沒辦法讓一群人遵守一個命令 4. scrutinize:仔細審查 These days, governments scrutinize each other's education systems as earnestly as their defense policies (最近各國政府仔細審查彼此的教育系統，把這件事像國防政策一樣嚴肅看待) 5. precede: 之前、先前 (v.) Most of those leaders who preceded me were very successful
Are you dating a Man-Child??Via SOML Posted by Lifehack on 2015年8月26日
Are you dating a Man-Child? 7 traits of a man-child 1. He is oblivious = 神經很大條 2. He is filthy by choice = 常常弄得一身髒 3. He has sleepovers =常有朋友在家過夜 4. He is impolite= 很沒禮貌 5. He is tacky= 粗俗、沒品味 6. He is bad with money= 愛亂花錢 7. But you can be yourself around him= 但在他身邊你可以很自在 Man: Don't ruffle (弄皺) my blouse (女生穿的襯衫). Women: You are wearing a blouse, but it's a woman's blouse. Man: It's very expensive blouse
因為不知道自己的熱情是什麼。這個問題也一直持續困擾我。 Follow your passion! Follow your heart! 對於未來感到徬徨的大學生或是社會新鮮人常聽到這幾句話，雖然聽取建議的當下，心裡很感動，覺得很有道理，但執行起來往往不如想像中順利。文章的作者說追隨熱情難以成真的原因有兩個，第一：不是每個人都清楚知道自己的熱情是什麼，大部分的人只知道自己不喜歡什麼；第二：就算有熱情，也不一定保證能求得一份能夠溫飽的工作，或是把熱情當工作你就能熟練就能獲得很大成就感。運動員、設計師、音樂家，這些職業的市場競爭也許比你想像的還要激烈很多。 「追隨你的熱情」最讓人困惑的地方是到底怎麼找到熱情，熱情是什麼? 它會不會隨著時間改變? 這股熱情存在每個人的內心深處嗎? 會不會其實我沒有呢? 如果把熱情當作一樣物品來尋找，恐怕花再多時間苦惱和思考也找不到。相反的，熱情是一種情感，是當你從事的事情對自己的意義非凡，這時候心裡感到無比巨大的能量和非做不可的激情，這種感覺就是熱情。熱情是一種隨著時間建立和培養起來的感覺。
Passion isn’t something lying dormant deep inside you that enough introspection can figure out. Rather, passion develops as the result of contributing to something meaningful.
Dear 6 year old, The training wheels are for babies. Just let go already Dear 7 year old, No matter anyone says, stay weird! Dear 8 year old, Find your baby sitter's weakness, and use it against them Dear 9 year old, don't get involved with the popular kid. They are narcissistic (自戀的) capitalists that know nothing about politics. Dear 12 year old, Ask her to dance. Just trust me on this one 閱讀更多 »
1. Put it baldly: 說白了、直截了當的說 2. caricature:諷刺的作品 When it's put so baldly, this story may seem too much of a caricature 3. sound: 完好的、健全的狀態 it seems that they really believe that the current systems of education are basically sound 4. compound: 惡化、加劇 They often compound the very problems they claim to be solving. 5. remedial: 補救的、矯正的 Sometimes, they fund remedial programs to get them back on track. 6. malaise: 頹萎不靡 There are many symptoms of the current malaise in the education. Sentence from Creative Schools by Ken Robinson
Ken討論的是教育系統的問題，線性的思考和命令式的服從，因為我們沿用的教育系統，發生在工業革命的時代，我們用製造產品的方式大量教育孩子。但孩子不是產品，他們有生命，他們獨特而且具有創造力，它們需要不同的方式來對教育和引導。 Ken也是一個很厲害的演講者，幾乎每個他在Talk的演講，都是哄堂大笑，結束時觀眾又集體起立鼓掌。可以從他身上學到很多演講的技巧。下面就拿演講課教授教我們的方法，去分析Ken的演講架構和他的吸引力來自哪裡。 Ken的演講架構和其他講者很不一樣，每個段落之間的界線非常模糊，也表示他段落橋接的方式非常自然。仔細看他的架構，可以發現這場演講幾乎都用名人的引言作段落的開頭，把內容推往另一個方向。演講內容也幾乎是用不同的類比和故事來貫穿，藉由故事讓聽眾產生情緒，再利用感同身受的例子，說明他要講的重點，讓觀眾印象深刻。需要做多少功課和經驗，才能挑出這些貼切的例子，有點難想像。 Ken的演講風格最大的特色是幽默和共鳴，他的TED talk大概是被觀眾笑聲和掌聲打斷頻率最高的一個。所以他很了解觀眾，他知道什麼點觀眾會笑，什麼經驗觀眾能完全體會。認同感很快就透過幽默和共鳴建立起來，Ken想要說出的重點也因此不言而喻了。當然，Ken的幽默點對台灣的我們來說，有時候沒這麼好笑。 和科學演講的架構- 論點、證據、解釋，Ken完全顛覆，卻仍不失重點，讓觀眾了解他想表達的訊息。演講不就是這樣嗎? 你真的沒辦法在短時間內說明所有細節，但你可以傳遞一個重要的訊息，引起大家的興趣和重視，產生共鳴的人自然會去找更多的書籍來了解細節。 Ethos from the speakers: humor candid analogy and story as example powerful and witty quotes as opening and ending words an Flow of this talk: Opening from DVD to online million views continue from last talk Crisis of human resources Define phenomenon: (opening/ analogy) from Al Gol's climate issues to crisis of human resources define: we make very poor use of our talent example 1- children feel no/ cannot find talent Key problem to this crisis: education (opening) philosopher- dividing the world into two groups people who wait for weekends and people who work for their belief education is the explanation of it explain the malfunction of education- dislocate people reform the education is not enough Innovation is hard, because of common sense: (opening)Lincon's quote from disentralled to innovation because we take for granted example 1- wrist watch Problems in education linearity (definition) should be organic (Ex: TED talks speakers) linear to college example of firefighters (diversity) example 2 colleges begin at kindergarten example 3 three is not half of six year old conformity analogy of fast food (people is different not standardized) guitar and book writing(passion) Solutions in education changing the metaphor from manufacturing to agriculture create conditions where kids can flourish. Ending with a poem
Words to take away: 1. 提起: speak of Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of 2. 實用的、功能性的: utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher 3. 繼續做事(工作): get on with it They simply go through their lives getting on with it. They endure it rather than enjoy it, and wait for the weekend. 4. 對某人具有意義、很重要: speak to sb It isn't what they do, it's who they are. They say, "But this is me, you know. It would be foolish to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self 5. 橫行、主宰: tyranny The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense 6. 壓制、阻止: suppress We don't teach American history in Britain. (Laughter) We suppress it 7. 教條、不能質疑的規定: dogma 8. 特別的事件: occasion 9. 解放: disenthrall The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion." I love that. Not rise to it, rise with it. "As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." 10. 催眠: hypnotize But our minds are still hypnotized by them, and we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them. 11. 迷惑: enthrall there are things we're enthralled to in education. 12. implicitly: 暗示的 13. explicitly: 表明的 Everybody who's spoken at TED has told us implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, a different story: that life is not linear. 14. 共生的、互相依賴的: symbiotically We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us 15. 終點、頂峰: pinnacle But, you know, we have become obsessed with this linear narrative. And probably the pinnacle for education is getting you to college. 16. 單一的: singular human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability 17. 重組、重建、改造: reconstitute At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence. 18. 乾枯、貧乏: impoverish 19 .消耗、耗費: deplete And we have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. 20. 天分：aptitude People have very different aptitudes. 21. 符合: resonate If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. 22. 印象深刻: struck I was very struck by Natalie Merchant's songs last night, recovering old poems. 23. 哀嘆: bewail he was bewailing the fact that he couldn't really give her what he thought she wanted from him
1. 前導(預告片): teaser trailer I was very excited when I watched the teaser trailer of the Hoverboard. 2. 高人一等、技高一籌: a notch above Speaking of marketing trick, BMW and Audi are still a notch above Lexus. 3. 聯名: co-brand Our company often co-brands with other car companies. 4. 當下、最初、一開始: in the first place I thought the Hoverboard can work by it self in the first place. 5. 磁浮列車: magnetic levitation trains Hoverboard uses the same technology that magnetic levitation implements.
1. 中性；非男性也非女性: gender-neutral I think the personality of ring finger, if there is, is gender-neural 2. 退化、老化: degenerate Our body would degenerate when we get old. 3. 靈活、靈敏: agile My index finger is the most agile one of all five fingers. 4. 泡芙: puff motcha-flavored puff 5. 空手道: karate I learned karate when I was a child. 6. 報應、業障: karma Do you believe in karma that what goes around comes areound? 7. 輪迴、轉世: reincarnation I believe in reincarnation that people will begin another life cycle after death. 8. 失眠: insomnia I had a insomnia last night, because the strong wind of typhoon kept blowing the roof. 9. 薑: ginger The ginger man (薑餅人); ginger-flavored biscuit 10. 醋: vinegar 11. 中立的: I remain neutral to both president candidates
1. exasperated: 火大、生氣 (卻束手無策) deadening effect:減弱作用 I heard people everywhere saying how exasperated they are by the deadening effects of testing and standardization. 2. voracious: 食量很大、如飢似渴的(譬喻) Young children have a voracious appetite for learning. (很大的求知欲望) 3. dull: 鈍掉、變小 For too many, the appetite starts to dull as they go through school 4. fable: 寓言 captivate: 吸引、使著迷 Some are part of the larger culture we belong to- the myths, fables, and fairy tales about our ways of life that have captivated people for generations. 5. contested: 受質疑的觀念、受反駁的 "Education" is an example of what the philosopher Walter called an "essentially contested concept."
Words to take away: 1. 提神: ramp up You will need to ramp up before big meeting 2. 睡死、累趴: zonk out Heavy, sugary lunch will zonk you out 3. 昏昏欲睡: drowsy Early afternoon is your drowsiest time in your day 4. 接近終點、最後一段路: in home stretch Now you are in the home stretch 5. 發揮效果、生效: kick in It takes about 30 minutes for coffee to kick in. 6. 一堆工作等著你 long day of work staring at you in the face 7. 提升: boost Eating one hour of waking up boosts your mood and cognition. 8. 敏捷、清醒: alert These first three hours are the most alert you'll be all day
Notes: 聽聽賽先生的十點建議吧! 1. Don't hit the snooze button (snooze button= 鬧鐘上的貪睡按鈕) 多睡五分鐘沒有什麼實際幫助 2. Make sure you eat breakfast 起床後一小時內吃早餐可以提升心情和清醒，但不要吃甜食，吃些麥類或蛋白質。 3. Grab a single cup of coffee 喝一杯就好，不要一早就很多咖啡 4. Get outside 曬太陽可以提高你的體溫和注意力，而且不要戴太陽眼鏡，太陽光照進眼睛也對提神有幫助。 5. Do your toughest test first 進公司的前幾小時，是你一天中注意力最好的時刻。 6. Have another cup of coffee soon after you get to the office, too. 咖啡大概30分鐘後會起到提神作用，如果一早要開會，一進公司可以趕快再喝一杯。 7. Have a light lunch 午餐吃點輕食，像是麥片、蔬菜或是瘦肉。 8. Have another cup of coffee in the early afternoon 午休後會是你最累的時刻，這時候再喝一杯咖啡，但是不要三點過後喝，咖啡提神效果會持續7小時，太晚喝你又會睡不著。 9. Do some simple busy work 接著就接近下班時間了，睡眠嚴重不足的人注意力集中部會超過10分鐘，所以這段時間做些簡單的工作。 10. Get out your office a little early, if possible. 最後當然是早點下班啦，有人問你為什麼這麼早下班，就說是科學家建議的。
Civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. (人類的文明是災難和教育間的競賽) 在Ceative school的序裡，Dr. Ken Robinson最後引用了這句話，來強教育的重要。教育是人的培育，特別是發掘每個人特有的才能、訓練思考、最後回頭貢獻於社會。現在的社會充斥著各種問題和亂象，當然大部分都是人類自己造成的，而能夠提出解決方案的恐怕也只有人類自己。但是現在的人類真的有足夠的智慧去解決所有問題嗎? 事實上競爭各種資源的情形下，人類製造出更多問題。 傳統的教育忽略每個人都有不同的才能，一昧地利用各種考試標準，把學術表現推到崇高的地位，扼殺了學生探索自己興趣的樂趣，教條式的教育也讓我們漸漸忘記思考，甚至對學習失去興趣。的確，還是有人能受惠於現有的教育制度，不能否認的是，更多的人在這個教育制度下犧牲。 人類的階級社會，常是由少數人來做出重大的決定，這些少數人可能從不同的方式獲得或被授予權力，但無論是哪一種方式，什麼樣的政治制度，當在位者沒有足夠的智慧，或人民沒有思考的習慣，一切照著理所當然的模式往下走，社會就不可能變得更好，我們也只會有越來越多問題需要面對。 Dr. Ken Robinson用了一個很棒的例子來說明，他說：我們常常說要拯救地球，但這樣的說法不太正確，地球已經好好的活了50億年了，它大概還可以活很久，但人類只出現了20萬年，把整個地球的歷史比喻成一年的話，人類大約是12月31日23:59吧(one minute to midnight)。需要就拯救的應該是人類，地球會好好的，大概還會說:「人類也不怎麼樣嘛，一下就掛了。」 如果人類本身是唯一能拯救自己的物種，那教育就是人類最大的希望了。只有啟發更多人，讓更多人能發揮自己的才能，(就像X戰警裡的變種人能善用自己的能力一樣)，我們自己才是解決各種亂象和問題的解方，我們有很大的能力，但我們不知道自己擁有能力，也許真的有人希望你永遠都不會發現自己的能力。但能力能夠創造也能夠破壞，而這之間的差異就在於教育，在於發掘你的能力、在於思考怎麼將你的能力帶來的正向的改變。 你我都知道，現行的教育做不到這件事，更糟糕教育還是人類的問題之一。從最根本的問題解決，也許可以帶來最大的改變。這也是為什麼教育如此重要。
1. 太多人要感謝了 There are, as they say, far too many to thank individually. 2. holistic approach: 全面的解決方法 I hope you will become part of the movement to a more holistic approach. 3. compassionate education: 有同理心的教育 There are many wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need. 4. immense talent: 巨大的、出色的才能 The essence of that talk was that we're all born with immense natural talents 5. stigmatize: 懲罰、污辱 Many highly talented, brilliant people think they are not because the thing they were good at in school wasn't valued or was actually stigmatized.
Passion isn’t something lying dormant deep inside you that enough introspection can figure out. Rather, passion develops as the result of contributing to something meaningful.
