Bring on the learning revolution! | Sir Ken Robinson

Translator: Andrea Barreiro Reviewer: Juan Jose Sanchez Penas

I was here four years ago,

Estiven aquí hai catro anos

and I remember, at the time,

e lembro que entón

that the talks weren't put online.

as disertacións non se subían a Internet

I think they were given to TEDsters in a box,

Penso que llas daban aos asistentes nunha caixa

a box set of DVDs,

unha caixa de DVDs

which they put on their shelves, where they are now.

para deixala nun estante, onde segue a estar

(Laughter)

(Risas)

And actually, Chris called me a week after I'd given my talk, and said,

E Chris chamoume

unha semana despois da miña conferencia

"We're going to start putting them online. Can we put yours online?"

e dixo: "Vamos a subilas a Internet

¿Podemos subir a túa?" E eu dixen: "Claro"

And I said, "Sure."

And four years later,

E catro anos máis tarde

it's been downloaded four million times.

vírona xa catro...

Descargárona catro millóns de veces

Así que supoño que se multiplicamos iso por 20

So I suppose you could multiply that by 20 or something

to get the number of people who've seen it.

temos o número de xente que a viu

E como di Chris, a xente ten fame

And, as Chris says, there is a hunger for videos of me.

de vídeos meus

(Laughter)

(Risas)

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

Don't you feel?

... non cren?

(Laughter)

(Risas)

So, this whole event has been an elaborate build-up

Así que todo o anterior foi para darlle bombo

to me doing another one for you, so here it is.

a outra conferencia miña, conque aquí a teñen

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Al Gore spoke at the TED conference I spoke at four years ago

Al Gore falou

na Conferencia TED na que falei eu hai catro anos

and talked about the climate crisis.

sobre a crise climática

And I referenced that at the end of my last talk.

E eu fixen referencia ao tema

cara a fin do meu discurso

So I want to pick up from there

Así que quero comezar aí

because I only had 18 minutes, frankly.

porque só tiven 18 minutos, sinceramente

(Laughter)

So, as I was saying --

Como ía dicindo...

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Vedes, ten razón

You see, he's right.

I mean, there is a major climate crisis, obviously,

É dicir, estamos a presenciar unha crise climática, é evidente.

and I think if people don't believe it, they should get out more.

E penso que se a xente non o cre tería que saír máis

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Pero penso que hai aínda outra crise climática máis

But I believe there is a second climate crisis,

which is as severe,

igual de grave

which has the same origins,

que ten a mesma orixe

and that we have to deal with with the same urgency.

e que temos que solucionar coa mesma urxencia

E quero dicir...

And you may say, by the way,

e pode que vós digades: "Mira, xa me chega

"Look, I'm good.

Xa teño unha crise climática

I have one climate crisis, I don't really need the second one."

E non me fai falla ningunha ter outra"

(Laughter)

But this is a crisis of, not natural resources --

Pero esta é unha crise, non de recursos naturais

aínda que penso que iso é certo

though I believe that's true --

but a crisis of human resources.

senón unha crise de recursos humanos

I believe fundamentally,

Creo firmemente

as many speakers have said during the past few days,

que, como se dixo nestes últimos días

facemos un uso moi parco

that we make very poor use of our talents.

dos nosos talentos

Very many people go through their whole lives

Moitísima xente pasa pola vida

having no real sense of what their talents may be,

sen ter idea ningunha de cales son os seus talentos

or if they have any to speak of.

ou de se teñen algún

Atópome con xente moi distinta

I meet all kinds of people

who don't think they're really good at anything.

que non cre que se lle dea ben nada en especial

Actually, I kind of divide the world into two groups now.

De feito, divido o mundo en dous grupos

Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher,

Jeremy Bentham, o filósofo utilitario

once spiked this argument.

tratou o tema

He said, "There are two types of people in this world:

Dixo: "Neste mundo hai dous tipos de persoas

those who divide the world into two types

as que dividen o mundo en dous tipos

and those who do not."

e as que non"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Well, I do.

Eu divídoo.

(Laughter)

(Risas)

I meet all kinds of people who don't enjoy what they do.

Atópome con xente moi distinta

á que non lle gusta o seu traballo

They simply go through their lives getting on with it.

Simplemente pasan a vida enteira

soportándoo

They get no great pleasure from what they do.

Non reciben ningún pracer do que fan

They endure it rather than enjoy it,

Atúrano, mais non lles comprace

and wait for the weekend.

e agardan pola fin de semana

But I also meet people

Pero tamén atopo xente

who love what they do and couldn't imagine doing anything else.

que adora o seu traballo

e que non se imaxina facendo outra cousa

If you said, "Don't do this anymore,"

Se lles dis: "Deixa de facer iso", quedan pensando de que estarás a falar

they'd wonder what you're talking about.

Porque non é o que fan, é o que son.

It isn't what they do, it's who they are.

They say, "But this is me, you know.

Din: "Pero ese son eu

It would be foolish to abandon this,

Sería unha parvada deixalo

because it speaks to my most authentic self."

porque é o meu ser máis auténtico"

And it's not true of enough people.

Pero non lle pasa á xente suficiente

In fact, on the contrary, I think it's still true of a minority of people.

Pola contra,

pásalle só a unha minoría

And I think there are many possible explanations for it.

E creo que hai moitos

motivos posibles para isto

And high among them is education,

E moi ao comezo desa lista

está a educación

because education, in a way,

porque a educación, dalgún xeito

afasta a moita xente

dislocates very many people from their natural talents.

dos seus talentos naturais

E os recursos humanos son como os naturais

And human resources are like natural resources;

a miúdo, están soterrados

they're often buried deep.

You have to go looking for them,

e hai que ir buscalos

they're not just lying around on the surface.

Non quedan aboiando na superficie

You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

senón que hai que crear circunstacias nas que poidan amosarse

And you might imagine education would be the way that happens,

E quizáis imaxinedes

que a educación crea esas circunstancias

but too often, it's not.

pero a miúdo non é así.

Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment

Todos os sistemas educativos deste mundo

están a ser reformados agora mesmo

and it's not enough.

E non chega

Reform is no use anymore,

A reforma xa non serve

porque está soamente a mellorar un modelo roto

because that's simply improving a broken model.

O que precisamos

What we need --

and the word's been used many times in the past few days --

e esta palabra empregouse moito estes últimos días

non é evolución

is not evolution,

senón unha revolución na educación

but a revolution in education.

Ten que transformarse

This has to be transformed into something else.

nalgo distinto

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education.

Un dos maiores retos

é innovar nos fundamentos

da educación

Innovation is hard,

A innovación é complicada

because it means doing something that people don't find very easy,

porque implica facer algo

que moitas veces non é sinxelo

for the most part.

Implica desafiar cousas que damos por feitas

It means challenging what we take for granted,

things that we think are obvious.

cousas que cremos evidentes

The great problem for reform or transformation

O principal problema para a reforma

ou para a transformación

is the tyranny of common sense.

é a tiranía do sentido común

Cousas das que a xente pensa

Things that people think,

"It can't be done differently, that's how it's done."

"Non se pode facer doutro xeito porque así é como se fai"

Hai pouco lin unha cita de Abraham Lincoln

I came across a great quote recently from Abraham Lincoln,

who I thought you'd be pleased to have quoted at this point.

que creo que vos pode gustar que mencione agora mesmo

(Laughter)

(Risas)

He said this in December 1862 to the second annual meeting of Congress.

Dixo isto en decembro de 1862

na segunda reunión anual do Congreso

I ought to explain that I have no idea what was happening at the time.

E teño que dicir que non teño nin idea do que estaba a pasar daquela

We don't teach American history in Britain.

Non ensinamos historia de América en Inglaterra

(Laughter)

(Risas)

We suppress it. You know, this is our policy.

Suprimímola. É a nosa política

(Laughter)

(Risas)

No doubt, something fascinating was happening then,

Sen dúbida, estaba a pasar algo fascinante en decembro de 1862

which the Americans among us will be aware of.

e os americanos presentes

saberán o que é

But he said this:

Pero el dixo:

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

"Os dogmas

do pasado sereno

non son axeitados para o tempestuoso presente

A situación

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

está cuberta de dificultades

and we must rise with the occasion."

e debemos medrar coa situación"

Encántame esa parte

I love that.

Not rise to it, rise with it.

Non estar á súa altura, senon medrar con ela

"As our case is new,

"Por ser novo o noso caso

so we must think anew and act anew.

temos que pensar de novo

e actuar de novo

We must disenthrall ourselves,

Temos que desenfeitizarnos

and then we shall save our country."

e así poderemos salvar o noso país"

I love that word, "disenthrall."

Encántame esa palabra, "desenfeitizar"

You know what it means?

Sabedes o que significa?

That there are ideas that all of us are enthralled to,

Que hai ideas que nos teñen enfeitizados

which we simply take for granted as the natural order of things,

que damos por feitas

que son a orde natural das cousas, o xeito en que as cousas son

the way things are.

And many of our ideas have been formed,

E moitas das nosas ideas xurdiron

non para enfrontarse ás circunstacias deste século

not to meet the circumstances of this century,

but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries.

senón ás de séculos pasados

But our minds are still hypnotized by them,

Pero as nosas mentes aínda están engaioladas por elas

and we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them.

e temos que desenfeitizarnos dalgunhas

Now, doing this is easier said than done.

Agora ben, dicilo é máis sinxelo que facelo

It's very hard to know, by the way, what it is you take for granted.

É moi difícil saber que é o que damos por feito

And the reason is that you take it for granted.

e o motivo é que o damos por feito

(Laughter)

Así que deixádeme que vos pregunte algo que ao mellor dades por feito

Let me ask you something you may take for granted.

How many of you here are over the age of 25?

Cantos de vós sodes maiores de 25?

That's not what you take for granted, I'm sure you're familiar with that.

Non é iso o que penso que dades por feito

Estou seguro de que xa o sabedes

Are there any people here under the age of 25?

Hai xente aquí que teña menos de 25?

Estupendo. Agora, os maiores de 25

Great. Now, those over 25,

could you put your hands up if you're wearing your wristwatch?

poderiades levantar a man se levades reloxo?

Vaia, somos moitos, non?

Now that's a great deal of us, isn't it?

Ask a room full of teenagers the same thing.

Preguntade o mesmo nunha sala chea de adolescentes

Teenagers do not wear wristwatches.

Os adolescentes non levan reloxo

I don't mean they can't,

Non quero dicir que non podan ou que non lles deixen

they just often choose not to.

senón que moitos deciden non levalo

And the reason is we were brought up in a pre-digital culture,

E a razón é que medramos

nunha cultura pre-dixital, os que temos máis de 25

those of us over 25.

And so for us, if you want to know the time,

e para nós, se queres saber a hora que é

you have to wear something to tell it.

tes que levar algo que cho diga

Kids now live in a world which is digitized,

Os nenos de hoxe viven nun mundo dixitalizado

and the time, for them, is everywhere.

e para eles, a hora está en todas partes

They see no reason to do this.

Non ven motivo ningún para levalo

And by the way, you don't need either;

e, por certo, vós tampouco tedes que facelo

it's just that you've always done it and you carry on doing it.

É só que o fixéchedes sempre, e seguides facéndoo

My daughter never wears a watch, my daughter Kate, who's 20.

A miña filla Kate, de 20 anos, nunca leva reloxo.

She doesn't see the point.

Non lle parece necesario

As she says,

Como di ela: "É un dispositivo cunha soa función"

"It's a single-function device."

(Laughter)

(Risas)

"Like, how lame is that?"

"Que cousa máis inútil!"

And I say, "No, no, it tells the date as well."

E eu dígolle: "Non, non, tamén di a data"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

"It has multiple functions."

"Ten múltiples funcións"

(Laughter)

But, you see, there are things we're enthralled to in education.

Pero hai cousas da educación que nos teñen enfeitizados

Deixade que poña un par de exemplos

A couple of examples.

One of them is the idea of linearity:

Un deles é a idea de lineariedade

that it starts here and you go through a track

Que si comezas aqui e vas por ese camiño

and if you do everything right,

e fas todo ben

you will end up set for the rest of your life.

rematarás establecido para o resto da vida

Everybody who's spoken at TED has told us implicitly,

Todos os que falaron en TED contaron, implícita

or sometimes explicitly, a different story:

ou explícitamente, unha historia distinta

that life is not linear; it's organic.

Que a vida non é lineal, é orgánica

We create our lives symbiotically

Creamos as nosas vidas simbióticamente

as we explore our talents

mentres exploramos os nosos talentos

in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us.

en relación coas circunstancias que axudaron a crealos

But, you know, we have become obsessed with this linear narrative.

Pero, sabedes, estamos obsesionados

con esta narración linear

And probably the pinnacle for education is getting you to college.

E é probable que o pináculo para a educación

sexa o ingreso na universidade

I think we are obsessed with getting people to college.

Estamos obsesionados con meter á xente na universidade

Certain sorts of college.

certos tipos de universidades

I don't mean you shouldn't go, but not everybody needs to go,

Non quero dicir que non se deba ir, pero non todos teñen que facelo

or go now.

e non todos teñen que ir agora

Maybe they go later, not right away.

Quizáis vaian máis tarde, non inmediatamente

And I was up in San Francisco a while ago doing a book signing.

E eu estiven en San Francisco hai tempo

asinando libros

There was this guy buying a book, he was in his 30s.

e estaba alí un tipo duns 30 anos mercando un libro

I said, "What do you do?"

Pregunteille: "De que traballas?"

And he said, "I'm a fireman."

E díxome: "Son bombeiro"

I asked, "How long have you been a fireman?"

Pregunteille: Hai canto que es bombeiro?"

"Always. I've always been a fireman."

Contestou: "Sempre, sempre fun bombeiro"

E eu: "Pero cando o decidiches?"

"Well, when did you decide?" He said, "As a kid.

E el: "Cando neno. De feito, foi un problema na escola

Actually, it was a problem for me at school,

because at school, everybody wanted to be a fireman."

porque de pequenos todos querían ser bombeiros"

(Laughter)

Dixo: "Eu quería ser bombeiro

He said, "But I wanted to be a fireman."

pero cando cheguei ao derradeiro ano da escola

And he said, "When I got to the senior year of school,

my teachers didn't take it seriously.

os meus profesores non o tomaban en serio

This one teacher didn't take it seriously.

Había un profesor que non o tomaba en serio

He said I was throwing my life away

Dicía que estaba a estragar a miña vida

if that's all I chose to do with it;

se iso era todo o que ía facer

that I should go to college, I should become a professional person,

Que tiña que ir á universidade e ter unha profesión

that I had great potential

que tiña un enorme potencial

and I was wasting my talent to do that."

e que estaba a malgastar o meu talento"

He said, "It was humiliating.

E dixo: "Foi humillante

It was in front of the whole class and I felt dreadful.

porque o dixo diante de toda a clase. Sentinme fatal

But it's what I wanted, and as soon as I left school,

Pero era o que quería, así que tan pronto acabei a escola

I applied to the fire service and I was accepted.

presentei unha solicitude no departamento de bombeiros e aceptáronme

You know, I was thinking about that guy recently,

E dixo, "Sabes, recentemente estaba a pensar nese profesor

just a few minutes ago when you were speaking, about this teacher,

hai uns minutos, mentres falaba vostede

because six months ago, I saved his life."

porque hai seis meses

salveille a vida"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Díxome: "Estaba dentro dun coche accidentado

He said, "He was in a car wreck, and I pulled him out, gave him CPR,

e eu saqueino, reanimeino

and I saved his wife's life as well."

e tamén salvei á súa muller"

He said, "I think he thinks better of me now."

Díxome: "Creo que agora ten mellor opinión de min"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

You know, to me,

Sabedes, na miña opinión

human communities depend upon a diversity of talent,

as comunidades humanas

dependen da diversidade de talento

not a singular conception of ability.

e non dunha concepción única de capacidade

And at the heart of our challenges --

E o punto clave dos nosos retos

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

At the heart of the challenge

O punto clave do reto

is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.

é a reconstrución do que entendemos por capacidade

e por intelixencia

This linearity thing is a problem.

Este asunto da lineariedade é un problema

Cando cheguei aos Ánxeles

When I arrived in L.A. about nine years ago,

hai uns nove anos

I came across a policy statement --

lin unha declaración de políticas

moi ben intencionada

very well-intentioned --

which said, "College begins in kindergarten."

que dicía: "A Universidade Comeza na Gardería"

No, it doesn't.

Non é certo

(Laughter)

(Risas)

It doesn't.

Non é certo

If we had time, I could go into this, but we don't.

Se tivesemos tempo, seguiría con este tema, pero non temos

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Kindergarten begins in kindergarten.

A gardería comeza na gardería

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Un amigo díxome unha vez

A friend of mine once said,

"A three year-old is not half a six year-old."

"Un neno de tres anos non é medio neno de seis anos"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

They're three.

Teñen tres anos

But as we just heard in this last session,

Pero, como escoitamos nesta sesión

there's such competition now to get into kindergarten --

hai tanta competición para entrar nas garderías

to get to the right kindergarten --

para entrar na gardería axeitada

that people are being interviewed for it at three.

que están entrevistando a persoas de tres anos

Nenos que se sentan en fronte de tribunais pouco convencidos

Kids sitting in front of unimpressed panels,

xa sabedes, cos seus currículos

you know, with their resumes --

(Laughter)

(Risas)

Flicking through and saying, "What, this is it?"

e que pasan as páxinas e din: "E xa está?"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

"You've been around for 36 months, and this is it?"

"Levas neste mundo 36 meses, e isto é todo?"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

"You've achieved nothing -- commit.

"Non acadaches nada, home

(Laughter)

Spent the first six months breastfeeding, I can see."

Pero se pasaches os primeiros seis meses mamando da teta"

(Laughter)

(Risas)

See, it's outrageous as a conception.

Como concepto, é indignante, pero atrae á xente

The other big issue is conformity.

O outro gran problema é a conformidade

We have built our education systems on the model of fast food.

Construimos os nosos sistemas educativos

co modelo da comida rápida

This is something Jamie Oliver talked about the other day.

É algo do que falou Jamie Oliver o outro día

There are two models of quality assurance in catering.

Sabedes que, en cátering, hai dous modelos de control de calidade

Un é a comida rápida

One is fast food, where everything is standardized.

onde todo está estandarizado

The other is like Zagat and Michelin restaurants,

E o outro son cousas como os restaurantes de Zagat ou Michelín

where everything is not standardized,

onde nada está estandarizado

they're customized to local circumstances.

senón que están customizados para as circunstancias locais

And we have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education,

E nos vendémonos a un modelo de educación de comida rápida

and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies

que está a depauperar o noso espírito e enerxías

as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

tal e como a comida rápida prexudica os nosos corpos

(Aplausos)

(Applause)

Creo que temos que recoñecer un par de cousas

We have to recognize a couple of things here.

A primeira, que o talento humano é enormemente diverso

One is that human talent is tremendously diverse.

People have very different aptitudes.

que a xente ten aptitudes moi distintas

I worked out recently that I was given a guitar as a kid

Hai pouco dinme conta

de que me deron unha guitarra de pequeno

at about the same time that Eric Clapton got his first guitar.

máis ou menos cando a Eric Clapton lle deron a súa primeira guitarra

(Laughter)

It worked out for Eric, that's all I'm saying.

A Eric funcionoulle, é todo o que digo

(Laughter)

(Risas)

In a way --

A min non

it did not for me.

I could not get this thing to work

Non conseguín xamáis que a cousa funcionase

no matter how often or how hard I blew into it.

por moitas veces e moi forte que lle soprara

It just wouldn't work.

Non daba funcionado

(Laughter)

Pero non só iso

But it's not only about that.

It's about passion.

Hai que ter en conta a paixón

Often, people are good at things they don't really care for.

A miúdo, á xente dáselle ben algo que non lle gusta especialmente

Hai que pensar na paixón

It's about passion,

and what excites our spirit and our energy.

e no que excita o noso espírito e a nosa enerxía

And if you're doing the thing that you love to do, that you're good at,

E se estás facendo o que máis che gusta, o que se che da ben

time takes a different course entirely.

o tempo parece ir por un curso distinto

My wife's just finished writing a novel,

A miña muller acaba de rematar unha novela

and I think it's a great book,

e creo que é un libro moi bo

but she disappears for hours on end.

pero ela desaparece durante horas

You know this, if you're doing something you love,

Xa o sabedes, cando estás a facer algo que che encanta

an hour feels like five minutes.

unha hora semella cinco minutos

If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit,

Pero se estás a facer algo que non concorda coa túa alma

cinco minutos semellan unha hora

five minutes feels like an hour.

And the reason so many people are opting out of education

E a razón pola que tanta xente deixa a escola

is because it doesn't feed their spirit,

é que non alimenta o seu espírito

it doesn't feed their energy or their passion.

Non alimenta a súa enerxía e a súa paixón

Por iso creo que temos que cambiar metáforas

So I think we have to change metaphors.

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education,

Temos que pasar do que é un modelo industrial da educación

manufacturado

a manufacturing model,

which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people.

baseado na linearidade

na conformidade e no amoreamento de xente

We have to move to a model

Temos que crear un modelo

that is based more on principles of agriculture.

máis baseado nos principios da agricultura

We have to recognize

Temos que recoñecer que o crecemento humano

that human flourishing is not a mechanical process;

non é un proceso mecánico

it's an organic process.

senón un proceso orgánico

And you cannot predict the outcome of human development.

E que non se pode predicir o resultado do desenvolvemento humano

Todo o que podes facer, como agricultor

All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions

é crear as condicións idóneas

under which they will begin to flourish.

para que comecen a medrar

So when we look at reforming education and transforming it,

Por iso, cando pensamos na reforma e transformación da educación

it isn't like cloning a system.

non debe ser como a clonación dun sistema

There are great ones, like KIPP's; it's a great system.

Hai sistemas moi bos, como o programa KIPP

There are many great models.

Hai moitos modelos excelentes

It's about customizing to your circumstances

Trátase de adaptalos ás nosas ciscunstacias

and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching.

e de personalizar a educación

para a xente á que estades ensinando

And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future

E penso que facer isto

é a chave para o futuro

because it's not about scaling a new solution;

porque non se trata de acadar una nova solución

it's about creating a movement in education

senón de crear un movemento na educación

in which people develop their own solutions,

no que a xente chegue ás súas solucións propias

but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.

cun apoio externo baseado nun currículo personalizado

Now in this room,

Nesta sala

there are people who represent extraordinary resources in business,

hai persoas que representan

recursos extraordinarios nos negocios

in multimedia, in the Internet.

nos medios e en Internet

These technologies,

Estas tecnoloxías

combined with the extraordinary talents of teachers,

combinadas co extraordinario talento dos profesores

provide an opportunity to revolutionize education.

representan unha oportunidade para revolucionar a educación

And I urge you to get involved in it

E eu anímovos a que vos involucredes

porque é crucial non só para nós

because it's vital, not just to ourselves, but to the future of our children.

senón para o futuro dos nosos cativos

But we have to change from the industrial model

Pero temos que cambiar do modelo industrial

ao modelo agricultor

to an agricultural model,

where each school can be flourishing tomorrow.

onde cada escola poda medrar mañá

That's where children experience life.

Alí é onde os nenos experimentan a vida

Or at home, if that's what they choose,

Ou na casa, se así é como son educados

to be educated with their families or friends.

coas súas familias ou amigos

There's been a lot of talk about dreams over the course of these few days.

Falouse moito de soños

nestes últimos días

And I wanted to just very quickly --

e só quero, moi brevemente...

I was very struck by Natalie Merchant's songs last night,

A noite pasada impactáronme moito as cancións de Natalie Merchant

recovering old poems.

que recuperaban vellos poemas

I wanted to read you a quick, very short poem

E quero ler un poema moi curtiño

from W. B. Yeats, who some of you may know.

de W.B Yeats, que algúns coñeceredes

He wrote this to his love, Maud Gonne,

Escribiu isto ao seu amor

Maud Gonne

and he was bewailing the fact

lamentándose do feito

that he couldn't really give her what he thought she wanted from him.

de que non lle podía dar o que cría que ela quería del

And he says, "I've got something else, but it may not be for you."

Di: "Teño algo máis, pero se cadra non é para ti"

He says this:

Di así

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Se tivera os mantos bordados do ceo

Enwrought with gold and silver light,

texidos do ouro

e a prata da luz

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Os mantos azuis, escuros

e negros do ceo

Of night and light and the half-light,

da noite, da luz e da media luz

estendería os mantos baixo os teus pes

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

Pero, sendo pobre como son

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

non teño máis que os meus soños

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Estendín os meus soños baixo os teus pes

Pisa con tento

Tread softly

because you tread on my dreams."

porque pisas os meus soños"

And every day, everywhere,

E, todos os días, en todas partes

our children spread their dreams beneath our feet.

os nosos cativos estenden os seus soños baixo os nosos pes

And we should tread softly.

E deberíamos pisar con tento

Thank you.

Grazas

(Applause)

(Aplausos)

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Moitas grazas