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Well, what I’d like to do is to reform education. I want to change how schools and universities teach people, and what they teach in particular. I think that we’re very good nowadays at teaching practical subjects like 1)accountancy and 2) microbiology. What we’re still very bad at doing is instructing young people systematically in many of the challenges of daily life; how to have relationships, how to bring up children, how to manage one’s anxieties and ambitions, how to face mortality. These things are not systematically addressed in the education system. So, in my ideal world, I’d have regular classes in which the works of culture of humanity—literature, plays, works of art—are used as 3)conduits to 4)contemplating some of the large and important questions, and we’d stop treating self-help, as I might call it, as something that is merely for idiots, and see it as something that all of us have to 5)wrestle with in order to have any chance of leading a good life. So that’s my plan for a new kind of education system.

我想做的是改革教育。我要改变学校和大学教育的方式,尤其是教学内容。我认为我们如今在教授会计学、微生物学等实用学科方面已经做得很好,而我们仍然做得不够好的是没有系统地指导年轻人如何面对日常生活中的各种挑战:如何处理好人际关系,如何养育子女,如何应对焦虑和抱负,如何面对死亡。这些教学内容都没有在教育制度中作出系统的阐述。因此,在我理想的世界中,人类文化的结晶——文学、戏剧、艺术作品都会是(学生们的)必修课,以作为(帮助他们)思考人生中一些重大问题的渠道。同时,我们不再把“自救”看作只有傻子才会做的事,而是把它看作为了拥有美好生活而必须全力以赴的事。那么这就是我计划中新的教学体制。

我想做的是改革教育。我要改变学校和大学教育的方式,尤其是教学内容。我认为我们如今在教授会计学、微生物学等实用学科方面已经做得很好,而我们仍然做得不够好的是没有系统地指导年轻人如何面对日常生活中的各种挑战:如何处理好人际关系,如何养育子女,如何应对焦虑和抱负,如何面对死亡。这些教学内容都没有在教育制度中作出系统的阐述。因此,在我理想的世界中,人类文化的结晶——文学、戏剧、艺术作品都会是(学生们的)必修课,以作为(帮助他们)思考人生中一些重大问题的渠道。同时,我们不再把“自救”看作只有傻子才会做的事,而是把它看作为了拥有美好生活而必须全力以赴的事。那么这就是我计划中新的教学体制。