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And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement.
我傾慕大學(xué)教授的學(xué)識，但我們不應(yīng)該用這樣一個頭銜作為衡量一個人成功與否的分水嶺。
They're just a form of life, another form of life.
其實(shí)大學(xué)教授只是360行中的一行。
But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them.
只不過他們比較好求知，我這樣說不是因?yàn)閷λ麄兊膬A慕。
There's something curious about professors in my experience -- not all of them, but typically, they live in their heads.
在我看來，大學(xué)教授有個特點(diǎn)，雖然不是共性，但很典型，他們只用腦子生活。
They live up there, and slightly to one side. They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way.
而且偏重于大腦的一側(cè)。用書面語來說就是，他們腦體分離。
They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. Don't they?
他們只是把身體當(dāng)作大腦的載體而已，難道不是嗎？
It's a way of getting their head to meetings.
這個載體可以載著大腦去開會。
If you want real evidence of out-of-body experiences,
如果你想親身體驗(yàn)，
get yourself along to a residential conference of senior academics, and pop into the discotheque on the final night.
你就去參加一次會議，學(xué)術(shù)研討會，然后在會議結(jié)束后再去迪廳蹦迪。
And there, you will see it. Grown men and women writhing uncontrollably, off the beat.
在那你會看到成年男女在不和樂拍地瘋狂搖擺。
Waiting until it ends so they can go home and write a paper about it.
期待夜晚的結(jié)束，好回家寫篇關(guān)于蹦迪的論文。
Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason.
注重培養(yǎng)學(xué)術(shù)能力的觀點(diǎn)根植于我們的教育體系之中。形成這種狀況還有個原因。
Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century.
所有國家的教育體系在最初建立時，也就是在19世紀(jì)之前，那時教育還不是公共事業(yè)。
They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism.
那時建立教育體系是為了滿足工業(yè)化發(fā)展的需要。
So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas.
所以有兩點(diǎn)基本的等級原則。
Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top.
第一點(diǎn)，對工作最實(shí)用的科目是最重要的科目。
So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked,
這樣就能輕易地避開孩子們喜歡的科目，從小就不讓他們碰觸。
on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right?
理由就是不這樣學(xué)就找不到工作。對嗎？
Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician; don't do art, you won't be an artist.
別玩音樂了，你成不了音樂家；別畫畫了，你成不了藝術(shù)家。
Benign advice -- now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution.
這些溫和的忠告--筑成現(xiàn)在的大錯。全世界都被卷入了工業(yè)革命的熱潮。
