<big><big><big>TED Talk
Don't insist on English!</big></big></big>
by Patricia Ryan
<small>http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english
http://open.163.com/movie/2011/7/I/D/M77TTPVIK_M77TTVCID.html</small>
Notes:
- great-grandparents
- to communicate across generations
- the Gulf<small> 旧金山湾区, 美国硅谷</small>
- Kuwait<small> 科威特 (<small>阿拉伯产油国</small>)</small>
- a hardship post<small> 一个艰苦地区</small>
- to modernize the country
- to empower the citizens through educations
- oil wealth
- to stop them in their tracks
- They can't pursue their dream any longer, till they get English.
- Now let me put it this way, ...<small> 现在我这么说吧</small>
- the Islamic Golden Age
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Light shone upon the Dark Ages of Europe.
<small><small>Shone is the past tense of shine.</small></small> - Don't get me wrong.<small> 别误会。</small>
- I am not against teaching English. I love it that we have a global language. We need one today more than ever. But I am gainst using it as a barrier. This system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English which is quite arbitrary.<small> 把智慧和英语能力划等号，这是非常武断的。</small>
- Einstein was considered remedial at school because he was dyslexic.<small> 爱因斯坦在学校是个需要补课的学生，因为他诵读困难。</small>
- <big><big>Education: The Great Divide</big></big>
Now I get it. I understand why people would want to focus on English. They want to give their children the best chance in life. And to do that, they need a western education. Because, of course, best jobs go to people out of western universities, that I put on earlier. It's a circular thing. - So bingo, problem solved.<small> 所以，瞧！问题解决了。</small>
If you think a thought, you are stuck.<small> 如果你想不通，就卡(qiǎ)住了。</small>
But if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more. - When a language dies, we don't know what we lose with that language.
- The children can lead Africa from what it is today, a dark continent, to a light continent.
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Mind your language.<small> 重视你的语言。</small>
Use it to spread great ideas.
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