经典名人英语演讲稿73：教育的民主化——哥伦比亚女歌手夏奇拉在牛津大学的演讲 mp3

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[00:05.40]73. The Democratization of Education---Commencement Address by Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll at Oxford University
[00:16.50]I have a fantasy about this future that I want to share with you today. 
[00:20.96]Let me put it this way, 
[00:23.12]if civilization were a car, 
[00:25.25]we would have been cruising at 20 miles per hour for millions of years only to hit light speed in the last hundred.
[00:33.98]So I wonder what made us accelerate so quickly recently and how can we continue this pace? 
[00:41.34]There is only one explanation to me, and that's the democratization of education. 
[00:47.53]I strongly believe that the best is yet to come, 
[00:51.75]with universal access to education to feed our collective intelligence, 
[00:57.65]with our commitment to meet and organize in places like this, 
[00:59.79]with students like you-we could be so close to create a network of intellects, 
[01:07.50]an enormous think tank devoted to sharing the best ideas and inspiring each other to keep learning, 
[01:12.15]keep informing and keep advancing our world, 
[01:15.73]and finding solutions to our common issues. 
[01:18.25]Wouldn't that be great? 
[01:20.44]We have evolved so far in history, with so many technological advances in just the past century, 
[01:27.72]so, how will we evolve in the next ten years, 
[01:31.35]or twenty years, 
[01:32.73]or fifty years-now 
[01:34.55]that we know that the world has shrunk and has become just one big neighborhood. 
[01:40.95]You are the architects of change. 
[01:43.65]So tell me, how many things that seem inconceivable today will be obvious tomorrow? 
[01:50.87]How long will man live? 
[01:53.40]How will society be structured? 
[01:56.50]Will we still be organized in couples, in communities with very nice governance? 
[02:02.82]Sadly, at the current pace of change, 
[02:06.14]we won't have universal access to education in a hundred years, let alone five. 
[02:12.44]That is unacceptable. 
[02:16.11]Especially, when the world has the resources to feed itself several times over, 
[02:23.10]then, why are children starving? 
[02:22.92]Latin America, alone has 3 times the necessary abundance to feed its entire population. 
[02:30.99]These children can't wait; 
[02:33.70]they can't wait a hundred more years.
[02:35.91]They need us to cure a child with Leukemia or AIDS with a simple pill or with a breakthrough vaccine. 
[02:43.27]We need to live in a world in which together we can find a solution to global warming 
[02:48.73]so we don't have to worry every time a single storm begins to form on the horizon. 
[02:54.70]We need to find new ways to distribute food so no child goes to bed hungry. 
[03:01.25]And I know that education is our ticket.

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经典名人英语演讲稿73：教育的民主化——哥伦比亚女歌手夏奇拉在牛津大学的演讲 mp3