TED演讲：成功的秘诀.doc

成功的钥匙 When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting, for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh grades math in the New York City public schools. And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests, i gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculated grades. What struck me was that I.Q. was not the only difference between my best and my worst students, some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric I.Q. Scores, some of my smartest kids weren’t doing so well. And that got me thinking, the kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they’re hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram, but these concepts are not impossible. And I was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn material if they worked hard and long enough。 在我27岁的时候我辞去了一份非常有挑战性的职业-企业管理咨询转而投入了一份更加具有挑战性的职业：教育我来到纽约的一些公立学校教七年级学生数学和别的老师一样，我会给同学们做小测试和考试，我会给他们布置家庭作业当这些试卷和作业收上来之后，我计算了他们的成绩让我震惊的是，I.Q的高低并不是我最好的和最差的学生之间唯一的差别一些在课业上表现很好的学生并不具有非常高的IQ分数 一些聪明的孩子反而在课业上表现的不那么尽如人意，这引起了我的思考当然，学生们在七年级需要学习的东西，是有难度的，像比率，小数，平行四边形的面积计算，但是这些概念是完全可以掌握的，我坚信我的每一位学生都可以学会教材内容只要他们肯花时间和精力的话 After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective. In education, the one thing we know how to measure best is I.Q., but what if doing well in school and in life, depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily? So I left classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist. I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in every study my question was who is successful here and why. My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy, we try to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out. We went to the National Spellin