Thank you so much. Really appreciate being here this morning.
And I am very excited to see so many students here. So all of you students, congratulations for being here. And I hope you can learn something today.
非常感谢今天上午能来到这里。
我很高兴看到这里有这么多学生，也恭喜有机会来到这里的你们，希望大家今天能有所收获。
What I want to do is to talk about, just for a minute, what you will encounter a bit later in your education.
It seems far away, but for your parents, it's really close. It's coming quickly, your university admission。
在开头，我想稍微谈一下，谈谈大家以后在教育中会遇到的事情。
这似乎还很遥远，但对你们的父母来说，真的已经是迫在眉睫了。在不久之后，你们就要报考大学了。
And maybe your admission to a school like ours, some of these great schools if when you're older, you want to attend one of our schools, here's a question that we might ask you. I have here US universities, but this applies all over the world.
“What have you done that your teachers or parents didn't tell you to do?”
也许以后你们会被一些非常棒的学校录取，比如我们这样的学校。当你们想申请我们学校就读，我们可能会问你们一个问题，这也是美国的大学，甚至全世界各地的大学都比较常问的问题：
“你做了什么是老师或父母没让你去做的事？”
That's a question that I might ask any of you who interview to come to Tsinglan School to be a student. We'd love to have you consider us. But that's a question that I would ask：
“What have you done that your teachers didn't tell you to do?”
Think about that.
在你们中任何人来面试并希望进入青澜山学校学习时，我们很高兴你考虑我们，有个问题是我最有可能问到的，那就是：
“你做了哪些老师没有让你做的事？”
大家可以思考一下。
Here's a variation of this question, coming from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and its application famous PS (personal statement) question: “Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.”
申请麻省理工学院，个人陈述题目中也有类似的问题：“请你和我们说一说你基于个人爱好去做的事。”
OK. Think about that, because so often in schools, we think in terms of doing what the teacher asked us to do, which translates into getting the highest score on the test, because we know the tests come from the schools, from the educators.
好好想一想，当我们在学校里，常常要考虑做老师要求我们做的事情，比如在考试中获得最高分，因为我们知道学校和老师会对我们进行测试。
So if we answer all the questions right, it would get a five or seven or a 100. That means we're really good. And so we get a bunch of hundred percents or a bunch of fives or a bunch of sevens on all those exams.
因此，如果我们正确回答了所有问题，就能得到 5分、7分 或 100分。这说明我们真的很厉害。所以我们在这些考试中得到了一堆100分或一堆5分或7分。
That makes us great students, right?
So when we apply to university, that's what we need, right?
那么，这就证明我们成为了优秀的学生，对吗？
当我们申请大学时，这就是我们所需要的，对吗？
Well, it's not quite that simple.
Yeah, those things are significant, but what also makes a huge difference is whether students have ideas of their own.
然而，事情没那么简单。
诚然，这些事情很重要，但学生是否有自己的想法，也同样重要。
Doing well on tests. There's a, there's a mathematical phrase, necessary but not sufficient in English.
That means that you need it. But it's not enough. You got to have some ideas, some interests of your own.
关于考试成绩好这个问题，有一个数学术语，翻译成英语是这样说的，它是个必要但不充分条件。
就是说，你需要有好的成绩，但这还不够。你还必须有一些想法，有一些你自己的兴趣。
So for you, parents, how are your students going to develop interests of their own to impress a school, maybe like Tsinglan where I work, or maybe later on, a famous university.
Their interests, because so often they have people telling them what to do all the time, parents and teachers and tutors and all of those people, valuable information that those people share, but not enough.
所以对于家长们来说，你们的孩子要如何发展自己的兴趣来打动一所学校？比如我现在就职的清澜山学校，或者以后去任何一所著名的大学。
学生的兴趣，经常会有人告诉他们去做什么，他们的父母、老师、辅导老师，这些人都会给他们提供一些重要的信息，但这样还远远不够。
US-facing schools, but I just heard Mr. Pratt talking about this very same thing.
So I'm from the USA, so I talk about US-facing schools, but the truth is that this is important in international education around the world.
面向美国的学校这个问题，不过刚刚我听到 Mr. Pratt 谈到了同样的事情。
我来自美国，所以我说的是面向美国的学校，但事实是，这在全球国际教育中很重要。
When the students have the time and space to develop interests of their own, that's something that we talk about a lot at our administrative team at, at Tsinglan, because we have a lot of important things that we want to teach the students.
学生要有时间和空间发展自己的兴趣，这是我们在清澜山学校的行政团队里经常谈到的事情，因为我们有很多重要的东西要教给学生。
But when do the students have space to do things on their own?
Or that that place where they have guidance from educators, but at the same time they have the encouragement to think about things themselves and develop their own interest, their own ideas?
但学生什么时候有时间和空间做自己感兴趣的事情呢？
或者说能有个地方，在那儿他们能够得到教育者的指导，但同时也能受到鼓励能够独立思考事情，发展自己的兴趣，提出自己的想法呢？
I think if there's one thing that parents can do, I, I've talked to lots of parents over the years, and what can I do to help my child get into a famous university? Well, I say the one thing you can do is to try to help them develop interests, because often it's outside of the classroom, or even outside of school.
我考虑过父母能够能做的一件事，这些年我和很多父母讨论过这个问题，父母能做些什么来帮助他们的孩子考上名牌大学？
好，我说，你们能做的一件事就是试着帮助他们培养兴趣，因为这通常是发生在课堂之外，甚至是在学校外面。
Parents can play a crucial role in American education and in international education.
Sometimes we call this extra-curricular activities or co-curricular, sometimes.
父母可以在美国教育和国际教育中发挥关键作用。
有时我们称之为课外活动，或者有时叫联合课程活动。
These are the interests that students develop that go along with their studies.
Sometimes they're related to their studies.
Sometimes they're entirely separate and have nothing whatever to do with their studies.
这些是学生随着学习而发展出来的兴趣。
有时它们与他们的学习有关。
有时他们是完全不相关的，与他们的学习没有一点关系。
Especially, especially, I would say, for the American universities,they don't care so much what you're interested in studying.
What you say you want to study, well, that's great.
It's important that you have interests.
我可以说，尤其是对于美国大学来说，它们不太在乎你的学习。但只要你说“喜欢学什么”，那太棒了，重要的是你感兴趣学。
If you go to the university, you might find something else that's interesting and change your mind？
You might change your mind two or three times before you finish graduating？
等你上了大学，你可能会对其他事情感了兴趣而改变主意？
在你毕业之前，你可能会改变主意两三次？
Doesn't matter.
Developing interests is the thing that matters.
And then later on, you figure out, I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
没关系。
培养兴趣才是最重要的。
再后来，你会明白你的兴趣是什么，并努力弄清楚“我往后想做什么”。
I don't know？I'm too old to grow up, but when I get older, I'm going to figure it out.
I haven't figured it out yet.
我年龄已经足够大了，我现在还不知道？没关系，随着年龄增长，我一定会弄明白的，只不过是现在还没弄明白而已。
Yes, so the big concern, the big concern is when the students have the time and the space, the encouragement to think things through for themselves and to choose, simply to choose.
是的，所以最大的问题是，为学生提供足够的时间和空间，鼓励他们独立思考并做出选择，去做出选择好了。
When do those young children have a chance to make a choice?
Because life is about making choices.
那些年轻孩子什么时候会有机会做出选择呢？
因为生活就是要做出选择。
But if you always have older people guiding you all the time and maybe telling you, go here, go there, you don't get the practice in making choices.
但是如果总是有年长的人一直给予你指导，也许会告诉你，去这里，去那里，你就没有锻炼自己做出选择的机会了。
And it gets obvious when you apply to top educational institutions, universities and great schools.
And then it gets really obvious later on when you're actually away in another country and you have to function on your own.
当你申请顶尖的教育机构、大学和名校时，这一点就尤为突出了。
然后当你真正离家来到另一个国家，必须独立生活时，会变得非常明显。
Very important. So this is something for you all to think about.
这很重要，所以这是大家需要考虑的事情。
It's something that we think about at Tsinglan, and that I know all of the educators here, I've heard them this morning talk in various ways, something that we think about an awful lot and try to build into our curriculum space for students to do independent projects.
这是我们在清澜山学校所考虑的事情，也是我认识所有的教育工作者在考虑的事情。今天早上，我听到他们（参加教育论坛的校长们）从不同方面谈到了这个问题，思考了很多，并计划将其纳入我们的课程空间，让学生做独立的项目。
At Tsinglan, we have a graduation capstone project for high school students.
They also do independent projects in grades five and grade eight that are very significant.
在青澜山学校，对于高中生，我们有一个毕业项目。
在五年级和八年级，他们还要做非常重要的独立项目。
Of course, they're built on the curriculum, and it's very important the curriculum feeds that, but the students help define the project themselves.
当然，它们是以课程为基础的，课程中提供这一点非常重要，但是学生要亲自为该项目做规划。
So it's that message that I want to leave you with.
所以，这就是今天我想给大家传达的信息。
What do you do, you students?
That's yours.
That belongs to you.
同学们，你们要做什么？
是由你决定的。
未来是属于你的。
Learn from the adults Think about our lessons, but also think about what you want to do. Thank you.
向过来人学习吧！想想我们的经验教诲，也要想想你们想要做什么。谢谢大家！
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