mdccTED演讲：每个孩子都需要守护

2021年1月22日发(作者：桑普森)

I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the
schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my
parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the
past 40 years I've done the same thing. And so, needless to say, over those
years I've had a chance to look at education reform from a lot of perspectives.
Some of those reforms have been good. Some of them have been not so good.
And we know why kids drop out. We know why kids don't learn. It's either
poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences. We know why. But one of
the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and
importance of human connection, relationships.


James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a
significant relationship. George Washington Carver says all learning is
understanding relationships. Everyone in this room has been affected by a
teacher or an adult. For years, I have watched people teach. I have looked at
the best and I've look at some of the worst.


A colleague said to me one time,
pay me to teach a lesson. The kids should learn it. I should teach it. They should
learn it. Case closed.


Well, I said to her,


(Laughter) (Applause)

She said,


And I said to her,


Needless to say it was. Some people think that you can either have it in you
to build a relationship or you don't. I think Stephen Covey had the right idea. He
said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking first to
understand as opposed to being understood, simple things like apologizing. You
ever thought about that? Tell a kid you're sorry, they're in shock.


I taught a lesson once on ratios. I'm not real good with math, but I was
working on it. And I got back and looked at that teacher edition. I'd taught the
whole lesson wrong. (Laughter)


So I came back to class the next day, and I said,
apologize. I taught the whole lesson wrong. I'm so sorry.