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1、TED英文演讲：如何高效学习TED英文演讲：如何高效学习So if youve been watching the news lately, you have probably seen photographs like this. Students protesting because their government is cutting subsidies to education.假如你们最近有看新闻的话，你们可能看过这样的照片。学生们抗议的缘由是政府削减了教化补助金。And the big part of the reason for this, both the governmen
2、t cutting subsidies and the student outcry is that getting a college education just doesnt cost what it used to.而对于这两个现象政府削减补助金，以及学生们出来抗议;它们的主要缘由就是：高校教化已经不再是以前那个价了。So if you graduated more than 2 decades ago, you might be surprised to know that it now costs students over 2.5x as much as it did for y
3、ou, and thats in real dollars for any economists in the audience here.所以，假如你是20多年前毕业的，你可能会惊讶地发觉：现在学生们要花你那时候2.5倍的钱，而且我们这里说的是实际价格(而不是账面价格)，假如观众里有经济学家的话。And its not an easy problem. On one hand the cost is becoming harder for both students and governments to bear. But in the other hand employers are de
4、manding an educated workforce.这不是个简单解决的问题。一方面，教化成本对学生和政府来说都越来越难负担;但另一方面，雇主们要的是一个受过教化的劳动力大军。They want employees with complex analytical skills. The world now runs out of what we dig out of peoples brains not just what we dig out of the ground. So, thats the problem.他们要的是具备困难分析技巧的雇员。现在全世界急缺的不光是自然资源，还有
5、优质的脑力劳动。对，这就是问题的症结。Now whats the fix? Well, let me be completely honest with you. I have no idea.那，怎么解决呢?嗯，实话讲，我完全不知道。But what I do want to suggest is that maybe weve been looking in the wrong place. Weve been expecting change to come from schools and governments, but what if the change came from us
6、.不过，我想说，可能我们始终以来寻求答案的方向是错的。我们始终希望学校和政府能带来变更，但有没有可能其实是我们自己该变更呢?Id like to share my story and suggest that maybe an education doesnt need to be expensive and whats more, maybe we can learn better without it.我想共享一下我自己的故事，告知大家教化可能并不须要这么昂贵，而且，我们在没有它的状况下可能可以学得更好。So in my case I was lucky. When I got accep
7、ted to college, I managed to narrow down my choice in major to two choices: Business and computer science. I was really interested in both.就我个人而言，我挺幸运的。当我被高校录用时，我胜利地把专业选项缩减到2个：商科和计算机科学。我对两者都真的特别感爱好。With one you get to build companies, with the other you get to build technologies. And these two are n
8、ot mutually exclusive. After all Bill Gates was a hacker before he built an empire.其中一个让你可以建立公司，而另一个让你可以创建技术。而且这两者并不是相互排斥的。终归，比尔?盖茨在建立他的帝国前就是个黑客嘛。But in my school I could only major in one. So I did what any freshman would do, and did a careful rational cost-benefit analysis.不过，在我们学校里，你只能选一个专业。于是我做了
9、任何一个大一新生都会做的事：一个严密、理性的成本-收益分析。So business it was, and after graduating I have no regrets. I learned a lot and I had a great time.于是我就选了商科，而且毕业后我也完全没有缺憾。我学到了许多，也过得很快乐。But after finishing my education, I had this longing for the path not taken. I really wanted to learn computer science. But going back
10、 to school didnt appeal to me, four more years of my life, acceptance boards, tuition bills, I didnt want to postpone my life and rack up debt, just to pursue a curiosity. I wanted the education, not the school.但是在结束了我的高校教化之后，我始终对自己没有选的那条路心怀渴望。我真的很想学计算机科学。但是，回学校读书对我来说没有什么吸引力; 我不想再花4年时间，不想再应付一次招生委员会，
11、不想再交学费，不想仅仅为了满意新奇心就推迟我的人生并背一大笔债。我想要的是教化，而不是学校。And then I remembered that Universities like MIT, Stanford and Harvard, had a habit of putting up classes online for free. Ive done a few of these before and then a thought occurred to me. If you could learn a class, why not an entire degree.然后，我想起来像麻省理工
12、、斯坦福和哈佛这样的高校都有把课程免费放到网上的习惯。我以前上过几次这种课，而这时我突然有了一个点子：假如你能用这种方法学一门课，为什么不干脆学完一个学位呢?So that was the beginning of an experiment. Would it be possible to get an MIT education in computer science without ever going to MIT? So its an intriguing idea,于是，试验就这么起先了。究竟有没有可能不去麻省理工就得到麻省理工的计算机科学教化呢?这个想法的确挺迷人的，but al
13、ready you can probably notice some of the complexities and objections this might raise. So going to MIT is a lot more than just what you learn in the classroom.不过你可能已经意识到这个事情很困难，而且会引起一些人的反对。对，去麻省理工上学意味的并不仅仅是课堂上学的那些东西。So how can you possibly hope to replicate something which is such a multifaceted ex
14、perience? So I like to think college is a lot like eating at a five star restaurant.你怎么可能用别的东西替代一个这么多维的体验呢?我觉得上高校很像是去米其林五星餐厅吃饭。Youre never paying for just the food. You get the wait staff, elegant decor, the fancy french wines. Youre paying for a complex and multifaceted experience.你绝不是仅仅为了食物才付那么多钱，
15、你的消费还涵盖服务员的服务、雅致的装潢、高档的法国葡萄酒。你买的是一个困难而多维的体验。And the same is true at college. You get networking with your intellectual peers, research opportunities and credentials from elite institutions. And like the fancy restaurant you get a big bill at the end.这对于上高校来说也是一样的。你可以和那些聪慧的同辈互动，你能从这些精英机构得到探讨机会以及证书。而且
16、，和高档餐厅一样，你最终会拿到一份老贵的账单。And you know what, sometimes this system works, but just as you probably dont want to go to a five star restaurant, every time you get hungry, you probably also dont want to go back to school every time you want to learn something. I didnt want the five course meal. I wanted my education “a
