Name: 為什麼學校教育制度，會導致你庸碌一生？ (為什麼學校教育制度，會導致你庸碌一生？ ► Seth Godin（中英字幕）)
Uploaded: 2025-04-04T02:25:43.000Z
Duration: 5 min 49 s

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People in power, the industrialists, want us to fly lower because it's easier to ignore us, it's easier to keep us in line, it's easier to get a factory job that way.

當權者，工業家，希望我們飛得更低，因為這樣更容易忽視我們，更容易讓我們保持一致，更容易在工廠找到工作。

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The story of Icarus is fascinating to look at from a cultural perspective.

從文化的角度來看，伊卡洛斯的故事非常吸引人。

It's been around for thousands of years, we all know it.

它已經存在了幾千年，我們都知道。

Daedalus and Icarus go to a desert island.

代達羅斯和伊卡洛斯去了一個荒島。

Daedalus, the dad, makes wings out of feathers, gives them to his son, puts them on with wax, says to his son, obey your father, we're flying out of here.

父親代達羅斯用羽毛做成翅膀，給兒子戴上，用蠟固定好，對兒子說："聽你父親的話，我們要飛出這裡。

Don't fly too high, because if you fly too high, the wax will melt and you'll die.

不要飛得太高，因為如果飛得太高，蠟就會融化，你就會死。

Icarus got uppity, he had hubris, he disobeyed his father, and he died.

伊卡洛斯傲慢自大，忤逆父親，最後死了。

Except that's not what the myth said in 1700, or 1500, or 1200.

不過，1700 年、1500 年或 1200 年的神話可不是這麼說的。

It used to say, but more important, don't fly too low, because if you fly too low, the water and the mist will weigh down your wings and you will surely perish.

它曾經說過，但更重要的是，不要飛得太低，因為如果飛得太低，水和霧會壓住你的翅膀，你肯定會滅亡。

They took it out because the people in power, the industrialists, want us to fly lower, because it's easier to ignore us, it's easier to keep us in line, it's easier to get a factory job that way.

因為這樣更容易忽視我們，更容易讓我們保持一致，更容易在工廠找到工作。

People who have the hubris to dream of something bigger change the status quo, and the people who are in charge aren't in favor of that.

自負的人夢想著更大的改變，而掌權者並不贊成這樣做。

I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all, but I do know where public school came from.

我根本不是陰謀論者，但我知道公立學校是怎麼來的。

Public school was invented by factory owners who didn't have enough compliant factory workers.

公立學校是工廠主發明的，因為他們沒有足夠的順從的工廠工人。

For 100 years, we had this wonderful system.

100 年來，我們擁有這個美妙的系統。

Do what you're told, go to the placement office, you'll get a job for 50 years.

聽話，去安置辦公室，你就能找到一份工作，一干就是 50 年。

You won't like the job, but you'll be able to go home and watch TV, buy enough stuff you'll need a storage unit, and then you'll die.

你不會喜歡這份工作，但你可以回家看電視，買足夠多的東西，你需要一個儲藏室，然後你就死了。

The deal was straightforward and kept on both sides.

交易簡單明瞭，雙方都遵守了約定。

And during our lifetime, in the last 20 years, it deals off.

在我們有生之年，也就是最近 20 年裡，它的交易額有所下降。

And the mistake, the problem, is that people are still seduced into thinking that what they're supposed to do is fit in more.

而錯誤和問題在於，人們仍然被誘導，認為他們應該做的是更多地融入社會。

And social media has made it worse, because there's this whole pack mentality of, how do I fit in more, with small bursts of, here's one quick tip for a flat stomach, and three different ways to get rich, and you can learn to flip houses today and be a millionaire tomorrow.

而社交媒體則讓情況變得更糟，因為人們總是抱著這樣的心態："我怎樣才能更合群？""這裡有一個快速擁有平坦小腹的小竅門，還有三種不同的致富方法""你今天可以學習翻轉房屋，明天就能成為百萬富翁"。

But the combination of those two mean that people are starting to feel broken and bitter, because the promise isn't being kept.

但這兩者結合在一起，意味著人們開始感到破碎和痛苦，因為承諾沒有兌現。

Nobody ever learned anything against their will.

從來沒有人違背自己的意願去學習任何東西。

Not enrollment from the legal sense of you're not truant, but enrollment in the sense that you are leaning into it and want to learn.

不是法律意義上的 "不逃學"，而是 "想學"。

So if we want to teach someone to be a baseball fan, here's what we don't do.

是以，如果我們想教別人成為一個棒球迷，我們不能這麼做。

We don't say, here's the baseball textbook, there'll be a test tomorrow.

我們不會說，這是棒球課本，明天要考試。

And if you do well, you can take another test.

如果做得好，還可以再參加一次考試。

And if you do 10 tests in a row really well, we'll take you to a game.

如果你連續 10 次測試都非常出色，我們就帶你去看比賽。

But yet, kids memorize all these statistics, and they know all this stuff, because they wanted to know it.

但是，孩子們記住了所有這些統計數據，他們知道所有這些東西，因為他們想知道。

是以，我們必須從爭取入學開始。

Just read these six paragraphs, and you will lose 30 pounds.

只要讀完這六段，你就能減掉 30 磅。

And it's easy to get the masses to pay a dollar for that.

而讓大眾為此支付一美元是很容易的。

The other way to do it is to say to people, being a Navy SEAL, or being physically fit, or being smart at business, these are endeavors.

另一種方法是對人們說，成為海豹突擊隊隊員、強健體魄、精通業務，這些都是努力的方向。

If you're ready to pay the price to get the benefit, there are people who will teach you.

如果你願意付出代價，就會有人教你。

So it's the opposite of the question, will this be on the test?

是以，這與 "考試會考這個嗎 "的問題正好相反。

If you're asking, will this be on the test from an online course, or from a school, what you're basically saying to the teacher is, without a certificate, I don't need to be here.

如果你問 "這是在線課程的考試內容，還是學校的考試內容"，你基本上就是在對老師說，沒有證書，我就不需要來這裡。

我在這裡只是為了證明我來過這裡。

And in this post-educational institution world that we're entering, certificates are worth less and less.

在我們進入的這個後教育機構的世界裡，證書的價值越來越低。

What's actually worth is, did you sign up to learn something where you opened yourself up to possible failure, opened yourself up to the stress of becoming someone else in a way that made you better?

實際上，值得一試的是，你是否報名參加了某種學習，讓自己面對可能的失敗，讓自己面對成為別人的壓力，從而使自己變得更好？

So the system wants you to feel mostly powerless, because they have power, you don't.

是以，這個系統希望你感覺自己大部分時間都是無能為力的，因為他們有權力，而你沒有。

And it also wants you to feel inadequate until you buy more stuff, because that's what marketers sell us, is the idea that until you buy this, you're incomplete.

它還希望你在買更多東西之前感到不滿足，因為這就是營銷人員向我們推銷的東西，即在你買這個之前，你是不完整的。

It turns out those two things don't make people happy.

事實證明，這兩件事並不能讓人快樂。

What makes us happy is agency, knowing that we have some sort of control over what's going to happen in our life.

讓我們感到快樂的是代理權，知道我們可以在某種程度上控制生活中將要發生的事情。

And unfortunately, the economic structure that we live in isn't going to be easy for most people to fix, not in the short run.

不幸的是，我們所處的經濟結構對大多數人來說並不容易修復，短期內也不可能。

But what we can fix right now is how we respond or react to what's happening in front of us.

但我們現在能解決的是如何對眼前發生的事情做出反應。

And my friend, Cat Hoke, says you can't be curious and angry at the same time.

我的朋友凱特-霍克（Cat Hoke）說，你不能既好奇又憤怒。

You get a choice in the traffic jam, you get a choice when you're dealing with an angry clerk, you get a choice with a bureaucrat.

在交通堵塞時你可以選擇，在面對憤怒的辦事員時你可以選擇，在面對官僚時你也可以選擇。

Am I going to be curious about how this person got to this moment?

我會好奇這個人是如何走到這一步的嗎？

Am I going to be angry at this situation?

We could dig deep and say, in this moment, I'm going to choose to be the best version of myself and seek possibility.

我們可以深入思考，然後說，此時此刻，我要選擇做最好的自己，尋求可能性。