Our failing schools. Enough is enough! | Geoffrey Canada

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevoditelj: Mladen Barešić Recezent: Senzos Osijek

I'm a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me,

Malo sam uzbuđen, jer mi je moja supruga Yvonne rekla:

she said, "Geoff, you watch the TED Talks."

"Geoff, ti gledaš TED Talks."

I said, "Yes, honey, I love TED Talks."

Rekao sam: "Da, draga, volim TED Talks."

She said, "You know, they're like, really smart, talented -- "

Ona je rekla: "Znaš, oni su stvarno pametni, daroviti..."

I said, "I know, I know." (Laughter)

A ja na to: "Znam, znam." (Smijeh)

She said, "They don't want, like, the angry black man."

Rekla je: "Oni ne žele... ljutitoga crnca."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So I said, "No, I'm gonna be good, Honey,

Pa sam rekao: "Ne. Bit ću dobar, draga.

I'm gonna be good. I am."

Bit ću dobar. Hoću."

But I am angry. (Laughter)

Ali ja jesam ljutit. (Smijeh)

And the last time I looked, I'm --

I posljednji sam put izgledao, ja sam...

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

So this is why I'm excited but I'm angry.

Eto, zato sam uzbuđen, ali sam ljutit.

This year, there are going to be millions of our children

Ove ćemo godine

that we're going to needlessly lose,

nepotrebno izgubiti milijune naše djece...

that we could -- right now, we could save them all.

Koje bismo - upravo sad - mogli sve spasiti.

You saw the quality of the educators who were here.

Vidjeli ste kvalitetu odgajatelja koji su bili ovdje.

Do not tell me they could not reach those kids

Ne govorite mi da oni nisu mogli doprijeti do te djece

and save them. I know they could.

i spasiti ih. Znam da jesu!

It is absolutely possible.

To je apsolutno moguće!

Why haven't we fixed this?

Zašto to nismo ispravili?

Those of us in education have held on to a business plan

Neki od nas u obrazovanju pridržavali su se poslovnog plana

that we don't care how many millions of young people fail,

prema kojemu ne brinemo o tome koliko milijuna mladih ljudi propada,

we're going to continue to do the same thing that didn't work,

nego nastavljamo činiti isto ono što nije ni dosad funkcioniralo,

and nobody is getting crazy about it -- right? --

i nitko se zbog toga ne uzbuđuje, zar ne?!

enough to say, "Enough is enough."

Dovoljno je reći: "Sad je stvarno dosta!"

So here's a business plan that simply does not make any sense.

To je, dakle, poslovni plan koji jednostavno nema nikakvog smisla.

You know, I grew up in the inner city,

Znate, odrastao sam u staroj gradskoj jezgri,

and there were kids who were failing

gdje su djeca propadala

in schools 56 years ago when I first went to school,

u školama kad sam prije 56 godina ja krenuo u školu.

and those schools are still lousy today, 56 years later.

I te su škole loše i danas. 56 godina kasnije!

And you know something about a lousy school?

A znate što ću vam reći o lošoj školi?

It's not like a bottle of wine.

Ona nije poput boce vina.

Right? (Laughter)

Je li? (Smijeh)

Where you say, like, '87 was like a good year, right?

Gdje ćete reći, recimo, 87. je bila dobra godina, jel'?

That's now how this thing -- I mean, every single year,

To nije tako... mislim, svake pojedine godine

it's still the same approach, right?

pristup je i dalje isti, jel'?

One size fits all, if you get it, fine, and if you don't,

Prema svakome isto; ako skužite, dobro, a ako ne,

tough luck. Just tough luck.

niste imali sreće. Jednostavno, nesreća.

Why haven't we allowed innovation to happen?

Zašto nismo dopustili inovaciji da se dogodi?

Do not tell me we can't do better than this.

Nemojte mi reći da ne možemo bolje od ovoga!

Look, you go into a place that's failed kids for 50 years,

Vidite, dođete na mjesto gdje djeca propadaju 50 godina

and you say, "So what's the plan?"

i kažete: "Onda, koji je plan?"

And they say, "We'll, we're going to do

A oni vam kažu: "Pa, radit ćemo

what we did last year this year."

ove godine ono što smo radili prošle."

What kind of business model is that?

Kakav je to poslovni model?!

Banks used to open and operate between 10 and 3.

Nekad su se banke otvarale i radile između 10 i 15 sati.

They operated 10 to 3. They were closed for lunch hour.

Radili su od 10 do 3! Zatvarale su se na jedan sat radi ručka.

Now, who can bank between 10 and 3? The unemployed.

E sad, tko može bankariti između 10 i 3? Nezaposleni!

They don't need banks. They got no money in the banks.

Njima banke ne trebaju! Oni nemaju novca u bankama!

Who created that business model? Right?

Tko je osmislio takav poslovni model?! Razumijete?

And it went on for decades.

I tako je bilo desetljećima...

You know why? Because they didn't care.

A znate li zašto? Jer im nije bilo stalo!

It wasn't about the customers.

Klijenti nisu bili važni.

It was about bankers. They created something that worked for them.

Bankari su bili važni! Oni su stvorili nešto što je njima odgovaralo!

How could you go to the bank

Kako ste mogli otići u banku

when you were at work? It didn't matter.

kad ste bili na poslu?! Nije bilo važno!

And they don't care whether or not Geoff is upset

A njih nije briga uzrujava li se Geoff ili ne

he can't go to the bank. Go find another bank.

zato što ne može u banku! Idi u drugu banku!

They all operate the same way. Right?

Svi se oni ponašaju na isti način. Jel'?

Now, one day, some crazy banker had an idea.

Onda se jednoga dana jedan ludi bankar dosjetio.

Maybe we should keep the bank open when people come home from work.

Možda bismo banku trebali držati otvorenom u doba kad se ljudi s posla vrate kući?!

They might like that. What about a Saturday?

To bi im se moglo svidjeti! A subota?!

What about introducing technology?

A da uvedemo tehnološke promjene?!

Now look, I'm a technology fan, but I have to admit

E sad, ja volim tehnologiju, ali moram vam priznati -

to you all I'm a little old.

malo sam ostario.

So I was a little slow, and I did not trust technology,

Bio sam malo sporiji, i nisam vjerovao u tehnologiju...

and when they first came out with those new contraptions,

I kad su uveli te novotarije,

these tellers that you put in a card and they give you money,

te bankomate u koje stavite karticu, a oni vam daju novac...

I was like, "There's no way that machine is going to count that money right.

Mislio sam: "Nema šanse da mi taj stroj izbaci traženu svotu!

I am never using that, right?"

Neću to nikad koristiti, jel?!"

So technology has changed. Things have changed.

I tako se tehnologija izmijenila. Sve se promijenilo.

Yet not in education. Why?

Ali, ne i u obrazovanju. Zašto?

Why is it that when we had rotary phones,

Kako to da smo i u doba starih fiksnih telefona

when we were having folks being crippled by polio,

i u doba kad su ljudi još obolijevali od dječje paralize,

that we were teaching

poučavali

the same way then that we're doing right now?

na isti način kao što to činimo i danas?

And if you come up with a plan to change things,

I ako imate plan kako promijeniti stvari,

people consider you radical.

ljudi vas smatraju radikalnim?!

They will say the worst things about you.

Govore o vama najružnije stvari?!

I said one day, well, look, if the science says --

Jednog sam dana rekao, pazite, ako znanost kaže -

this is science, not me -- that our poorest children

to kaže znanost, ne ja - da se najsiromašnija naša djeca

lose ground in the summertime --

potpuno izgube tijekom ljeta...

You see where they are in June and say, okay, they're there.

Vidite ih kakvi su u lipnju, i kažete: "Dobro, tu su."

You look at them in September, they've gone down.

Pogledate ih u rujnu - potonuli su...

You say, whoo! So I heard about that in '75

Kažete: opa! Čuo sam za to 1975.

when I was at the Ed School at Harvard.

tijekom pohađanja Ed School na Harvardu.

I said, "Oh, wow, this is an important study."

Rekao sam: "Oh, čovječe, ovo je važna studija!"

Because it suggests we should do something.

Jer nam ukazuje da bismo nešto trebali učiniti.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Every 10 years they reproduce the same study.

Svakih 10 godina reproduciraju istu studiju.

It says exactly the same thing:

Ona tvrdi jednu te istu stvar:

Poor kids lose ground in the summertime.

Siromašna djeca izgube se tijekom ljeta.

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

A sustav je odlučio da ljeti nema škole!

You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules?

Znate, uvijek se pitam: "Tko izmišlja takva pravila?"

For years I went to -- Look, I went the Harvard Ed School.

Godinama sam išao na... znate, išao sam na Harvard Ed School.

I thought I knew something.

Mislio sam da znam nešto.

They said it was the agrarian calendar, and people had —

Govorilo se da je to razdoblje poljoprivrednih poslova, i da ljudi...

but let me tell you why that doesn't make sense.

Ali, reći ću vam zašto to nema smisla!

I never got that. I never got that,

Nikad to nisam razumio! Nikad nisam razumio

because anyone knows if you farm,

zato što svatko zna da ako se bavite zemljoradnjom,

you don't plant crops in July and August.

ne sijete u srpnju i u kolovozu!

You plant them in the spring.

Sjetva je u proljeće!

So who came up with this idea? Who owns it?

Pa tko se onda toga dosjetio?! Čija je to zamisao?!

Why did we ever do it?

Zašto smo ikad tako radili?

Well it just turns out in the 1840s we did have,

Međutim, 1840-ih

schools were open all year. They were open all year,

škole su bile otvorene cijele godine. Bile su otvorene cijele godine,

because we had a lot of folks who had to work all day.

jer je mnogo ljudi moralo raditi po cijele dane.

They didn't have any place for their kids to go.

Nisu imali gdje zbrinuti djecu.

It was a perfect place to have schools.

Idealno je bilo imati škole.

So this is not something that is ordained

Dakle, to nije nešto zapovijeđeno

from the education gods.

od strane "obrazovnih bogova".

So why don't we? Why don't we?

Pa zašto onda ne bismo? Zašto ne bismo?

Because our business has refused to use science.

Zato što je naša struka odbila iskoristiti znanost.

Science. You have Bill Gates coming out and saying,

Znanost! To je ono kad Bill Gates dođe i kaže:

"Look, this works, right? We can do this."

"Vidite, ovo radi, zar ne? Mi to možemo učiniti."

How many places in America are going to change? None.

Koliko će se sredina u Americi izmijeniti? Nijedna.

None. Okay, yeah, there are two. All right?

Nijedna. Dobro, hoće... dva. U redu?

Yes, there'll be some place, because some folks will do the right thing.

Da, bit će ih nekoliko, jer će neki ljudi učiniti ono što je jedino ispravno.

As a profession, we have to stop this. The science is clear.

Kao struka, moramo to zaustaviti. Znanost je tu jasna.

Here's what we know.

Evo što znamo...

We know that the problem begins immediately.

Znamo da problem nastaje u ovom trenutku.

Right? This idea, zero to three.

Točno? Sad, 0 minuta do 3.

My wife, Yvonne, and I, we have four kids,

Moja supruga Yvonne i ja imamo četvero djece,

three grown ones and a 15-year-old.

troje odraslih i jedno 15-godišnje.

That's a longer story.

To je duža priča...

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

With our first kids, we did not know the science

S prvim našim djetetom, ništa nismo znali o znanosti

about brain development.

o razvoju mozga.

We didn't know how critical those first three years were.

Nismo znali koliko su ključne prve tri godine.

We didn't know what was happening in those young brains.

Nismo znali što se zbiva u tim mladim mozgovima.

We didn't know the role that language,

Nismo znali o ulozi koju jezik,

a stimulus and response, call and response,

podražaj i odgovor, poziv i odgovor...

how important that was in developing those children.

koliko su značajni u razvoju djece.

We know that now. What are we doing about it? Nothing.

Sad to znamo! I što činimo s time u vezi? Ništa.

Wealthy people know. Educated people know.

Imućni ljudi znaju. Obrazovani ljudi znaju.

And their kids have an advantage.

I njihova su djeca u prednosti.

Poor people don't know,

Siromašni ljudi ne znaju,

and we're not doing anything to help them at all.

i mi ne činimo ništa da bismo im pomogli.

But we know this is critical.

Ali, mi znamo da je to ključno.

Now, you take pre-kindergarten.

Uzmimo vrtić za primjer.

We know it's important for kids.

Znamo da je važan za djecu!

Poor kids need that experience.

Siromašnoj je djeci potrebno to iskustvo!

Nope. Lots of places, it doesn't exist.

Ništa. U mnogim mjestima - ne postoji.

We know health services matter.

Znamo da je zdravstvena zaštita važna.

You know, we provide health services

Znate, mi osiguravamo zdravstvenu zaštitu

and people are always fussing at me about, you know,

i ljudi se oko mene uvijek uskomešaju, znate,

because I'm all into accountability and data

jer sav sam u odgovornosti i u podacima

and all of that good stuff, but we do health services,

i u svim tim dobrim stvarima, ali mi pružamo zdravstvenu zaštitu

and I have to raise a lot of money.

i za to moram prikupljati dosta novca.

People used to say when they'd come fund us,

Naši me donatori često znaju pitati:

"Geoff, why do you provide these health services?"

"Geoff, zašto pružate te zdravstvene usluge?"

I used to make stuff up. Right?

Običavao sam izmišljati. Jel'?

I'd say, "Well, you know a child

Rekao bih: "Znate, dijete

who has cavities is not going to, uh,

s bolnim karijesom na zubima neće

be able to study as well."

moći istodobno i učiti."

And I had to because I had to raise the money.

Morao sam to činiti jer sam morao prikupiti novac.

But now I'm older, and you know what I tell them?

No, sad sam stariji, i znate li što im govorim?

You know why I provide kids with those health benefits

Znate li zašto djeci osiguravam te zdravstvene pogodnosti,

and the sports and the recreation and the arts?

sportske aktivnosti, igru, prilike za bavljenje umjetnošću?

Because I actually like kids.

Zato što ja, zapravo, volim djecu.

I actually like kids. (Laughter) (Applause)

Ja ustvari volim djecu. (Smijeh) (Pljesak)

But when they really get pushy, people really get pushy,

Ali kad postanu uistinu naporni, a ljudi takvi znaju biti,

I say, "I do it because you do it for your kid."

kažem im: "Činim to zato što vi to činite za svoje dijete."

And you've never read a study from MIT that says

I nikad nisam pročitao studiju s MIT-a u kojoj se tvrdi

giving your kid dance instruction

da će plesna poduka vašem djetetu

is going to help them do algebra better,

pomoći da se bolje snalazi u algebri,

but you will give that kid dance instruction,

već ćete tom djetetu osigurati plesnu poduku

and you will be thrilled that that kid wants to do dance instruction,

i bit ćete uzbuđeni zbog toga što to dijete želi naučiti plesati,

and it will make your day. And why shouldn't poor kids

i to će vam uljepšati dan. A zašto ne bi siromašna djeca

have the same opportunity? It's the floor for these children.

imala istu tu priliku? To je najmanje što im možemo pružiti.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

So here's the other thing.

Još jedna stvar...

I'm a tester guy. I believe you need data, you need information,

Ja volim testiranja. Vjerujem da su vam potrebni podaci, trebaju vam informacije,

because you work at something, you think it's working,

zato što radite na nečemu, mislite da to funkcionira,

and you find out it's not working.

a onda otkrijete da ne funkcionira.

I mean, you're educators. You work, you say,

Hoću reći, vi ste odgajatelji. Radite, govorite,

you think you've got it, great, no? And you find out they didn't get it.

mislite da ste uspjeli, sjajno, ne? I onda otkrijete da nisu razumjeli.

But here's the problem with testing.

Međutim, postoji problem s testiranjem.

The testing that we do --

Naša testiranja...

we're going to have our test in New York next week —

a naše će testiranje biti sljedećeg tjedna u New Yorku...

is in April.

obično su u travnju.

You know when we're going to get the results back?

Znate li kad ćemo dobiti povratnu informaciju?!

Maybe July, maybe June.

Možda u srpnju, možda u lipnju!

And the results have great data.

A povratne informacije sadrže odlične informacije.

They'll tell you Raheem really struggled,

One će vam reći da se Raheem zbilja trudio,

couldn't do two-digit multiplication -- so great data,

nije uspijevao množiti dvoznamenkaste brojeve - odlične informacije, dakle -

but you're getting it back after school is over.

ali dobivate ih pošto je škola već završila!

And so, what do you do?

I onda, što činite?

You go on vacation. (Laughter)

Idete na godišnji odmor! (Smijeh)

You come back from vacation.

Vraćate se s godišnjeg odmora.

Now you've got all of this test data from last year.

Raspolažete svim tim prošlogodišnjim testovnim podacima.

You don't look at it.

Ne pogledate ih!

Why would you look at it?

Zašto biste ih gledali?!

You're going to go and teach this year.

Ionako ćete poučavati ove godine!

So how much money did we just spend on all of that?

Koliko smo onda novca potrošili na sve to?

Billions and billions of dollars

Milijarde i milijarde dolara

for data that it's too late to use.

za podatke za čije je korištenje prekasno!

I need that data in September.

Ti mi podaci trebaju u rujnu!

I need that data in November.

Ti mi podaci trebaju u studenome!

I need to know you're struggling, and I need to know

Trebam znati da se boriš, trebam znati

whether or not what I did corrected that.

je li ono što sam ja učinio pomoglo!

I need to know that this week.

Trebam to znati ovoga tjedna!

I don't need to know that at the end of the year when it's too late.

Ne trebam to doznati krajem godine, kad je prekasno!

Because in my older years, I've become somewhat of a clairvoyant.

U ovim starijim godinama postao sam i ponešto vidovit.

I can predict school scores.

Mogu predvidjeti školske rezultate.

You take me to any school.

Odvedite me u bilo koju školu.

I'm really good at inner city schools that are struggling.

Doista znam raditi sa školama u problemima, onima u starim gradskim jezgrama.

And you tell me last year 48 percent of those kids

Kažete mi da je prošle godine 48% te djece

were on grade level.

bilo u skladu s očekivanim standardom za svoj uzrast.

And I say, "Okay, what's the plan, what did we do

Reći ću vam: "Dobro, kakav je plan, što smo učinili

from last year to this year?"

od prošle godine do ove?"

You say, "We're doing the same thing."

Vi mi kažete: "Radimo isto što i prošle godine."

I'm going to make a prediction. (Laughter)

Prognozirat ću... (Smijeh)

This year, somewhere between 44

Ove godine, negdje između 44%

and 52 percent of those kids will be on grade level.

i 52% te djece bit će na očekivanoj razini za svoj uzrast.

And I will be right every single time.

I bit ću u pravu svaki put! Jel'?

So we're spending all of this money, but we're getting what?

Dakle, trošimo sav taj novac... I što dobivamo?!

Teachers need real information right now

Učiteljima je upravo sada potrebna stvarna informacija

about what's happening to their kids.

o tome što se s njihovom djecom zbiva.

The high stakes is today, because you can do something about it.

Danas su ulozi visoki, jer možete nešto učiniti!

So here's the other issue that I just think

Evo i drugog problema o kojemu mislim

we've got to be concerned about.

da trebamo brinuti...

We can't stifle innovation in our business.

Ne možemo ugušiti inovativnost u našoj djelatnosti.

We have to innovate. And people in our business get mad about innovation.

Moramo inovirati! A ljudi u našem zanimanju polude kad im se spomene inovacija.

They get angry if you do something different.

Naljute se učinite li što drugačije.

If you try something new, people are always like,

Pokušate li što novo, ljudi često reagiraju:

"Ooh, charter schools." Hey, let's try some stuff. Let's see.

"U, da, slobodne škole!?" Hej... pokušajmo nešto! Ajmo vidjeti!

This stuff hasn't worked for 55 years.

Nije funkcioniralo 55 godina!

Let's try something different. And here's the rub.

Pokušajmo nešto novo! A postoji i poteškoća...

Some of it's not going to work.

ponešto od toga neće funkcionirati.

You know, people tell me, "Yeah, those charter schools, a lot of them don't work."

Znate, ljudi mi govore: "Da, te slobodne škole... dosta njih ne funkcionira."

A lot of them don't. They should be closed.

Dosta njih i ne! Trebalo bi ih zatvoriti!

I mean, I really believe they should be closed.

Hoću reći, doista vjerujem da bi ih trebalo zatvoriti!

But we can't confuse figuring out the science

Ali, ne smijemo brkati slučajeve u kojima znanost

and things not working with we shouldn't therefore do anything.

i procesi ne funkcioniraju sa stavom prema kojemu zato ne bismo ništa trebali ni raditi.

Right? Because that's not the way the world works.

Istina? Jer svijet tako ne funkcionira!

If you think about technology,

Pomislite li na tehnologiju,

imagine if that's how we thought about technology.

zamislite da smo tako razmišljali o tehnologiji.

Every time something didn't work,

Svaki put kad nešto nije funkcioniralo,

we just threw in the towel and said, "Let's forget it." Right?

samo bismo ubacili ručnik i rekli: "Zaboravimo to." Jel' tako?

You know, they convinced me. I'm sure some of you were like me --

Znate, uvjerili su me. Siguran sam da su neki od vas poput mene -

the latest and greatest thing, the PalmPilot.

posljednja odlična stvar - PalmPilot...

They told me, "Geoff, if you get this PalmPilot

Rekli su mi: "Geoff, nabaviš li si ovaj PalmPilot,

you'll never need another thing."

nikad ti više ništa drugo neće trebati."

That thing lasted all of three weeks. It was over.

Ta je stvar trajala svega tri tjedna! I gotovo!

I was so disgusted I spent my money on this thing.

Zgadilo mi se na što sam potrošio novac!

Did anybody stop inventing? Not a person. Not a soul.

Je li itko prestao inovirati? Nitko. Ni živa duša.

The folks went out there. They kept inventing.

Ljudi su nastavili. Nastavili su s inovacijama.

The fact that you have failure, that shouldn't stop you

Činjenica da ste propali ne bi vas trebala zaustaviti

from pushing the science forward.

od daljnjih znanstvenih istraživanja.

Our job as educators,

Naš posao kao odgajatelja...

there's some stuff we know that we can do.

Postoje neke stvari koje znamo da možemo učiniti.

And we've got to do better. The evaluation, we have to start with kids earlier,

I moramo bolje. Evaluacija, moramo započeti s djecom ranije,

we have to make sure that we provide the support to young people.

moramo osigurati podršku mladim ljudima.

We've got to give them all of these opportunities.

Moramo im pružiti sve moguće prilike!

So that we have to do. But this innovation issue,

To, dakle, moramo učiniti! Ali, te inovacije...

this idea that we've got to keep innovating

ta ideja da moramo nastaviti inovirati

until we really nail this science down

sve dok ne razjasnimo u potpunosti tu znanost...

is something that is absolutely critical.

To je apsolutno ključno.

And this is something, by the way,

I to je nešto

that I think is going to be a challenge for our entire field.

što će po mom mišljenju biti izazov za čitavu našu struku.

America cannot wait another 50 years to get this right.

Amerika ne može čekati još 50 godina da to ispravi.

We have run out of time.

Isteklo nam je vrijeme.

I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an educational cliff

Ne znam za fiskalnu liticu, ali znam da postoji obrazovna litica

that we are walking over right this very second,

koju prelazimo upravo u ovom trenutku.

and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness

I dopustimo li ljudima da nastave govoriti gluposti

about saying we can't afford this —

o tome kako si ovo ne možemo priuštiti...

So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars.

I tako Bill Gates kaže da će to koštati pet milijardi dolara.

What is five billion dollars to the United States?

Što je pet milijardi dolara za Sjedinjene Države?!

What did we spend in Afghanistan this year?

Koliko smo ove godine potrošili u Afganistanu?!

How many trillions? (Applause)

Koliko bilijuna? (Pljesak)

When the country cares about something,

Kad je zemlji do nečega stalo,

we'll spend a trillion dollars without blinking an eye.

potrošit ćemo bilijun dolara a da ni ne trepnemo.

When the safety of America is threatened,

Kad je sigurnost Amerike ugrožena,

we will spend any amount of money.

potrošit ćemo koju god svotu.

The real safety of our nation

Prava sigurnost naše nacije

is preparing this next generation

sastoji se u pripremi sljedeće generacije

so that they can take our place

kako bi zauzela naše mjesto

and be the leaders of the world

i bila lider ovoga svijeta

when it comes to thinking and technology and democracy

u pogledu mišljenja, tehnologije i demokracije,

and all that stuff we care about.

i svega onoga do čega nam je stalo.

I dare say it's a pittance,

Usuđujem se reći da je zanemarivo

what it would require for us to really

koliko bi nas koštalo da uistinu

begin to solve some of these problems.

započnemo rješavati neke od tih problema.

So once we do that, I'll no longer be angry. (Laughter)

I jednom kad to učinimo, ja više neću biti bijesan. (Smijeh)

So, you guys, help me get there.

Stoga, ljudi, pomozite mi da u tome uspijemo.

Thank you all very much. Thank you.

Hvala vam najljepša svima! Hvala!

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

John Legend: So what is the high school dropout rate at Harlem Children's Zone?

John Legend: Kolika je stopa prekida školovanja u srednjoj školi u Harlem Children's Zone (neprofitna organizacija, op.p.)?

Geoffrey Canada: Well, you know, John,

Geoffrey Canada: Pa, znaš, Johne,

100 percent of our kids graduated high school

100% naše djece maturiralo je

last year in my school.

prošle godine u mojoj školi.

A hundred percent of them went to college.

100% njih upisalo je fakultet.

This year's seniors will have 100 percent graduating high school.

Ove će godine 100% maturanata uspjeti završiti srednju školu.

Last I heard we had 93 percent accepted to college.

Posljednje što sam čuo bilo je da ih je 93% prihvaćeno na fakultet.

We'd better get that other seven percent.

Bolje da se pobrinemo i za tih 7%.

So that's just how this goes. (Applause)

Eto, tako to kod nas ide. (Pljesak)

JL: So how do you stick with them after they leave high school?

JL: Kako održavate kontakte s njima pošto napuste srednju školu?

GC: Well, you know, one of the bad problems

GC: Pa znaš, jedan od teških problema

we have in this country is these kids, the same kids,

s kojima se u ovoj zemlji susrećemo je da ta djeca, ista djeca,

these same vulnerable kids, when you get them in school,

ta ista ranjiva djeca, kad jednoga dana ipak krenu u školu,

they drop out in record numbers.

napuštaju je u rekordnim razmjerima.

And so we've figured out that you've got to really design

I tako smo zaključili da uistinu trebamo osmisliti

a network of support for these kids that in many ways

sustav podrške za takvu djecu, koji uvelike

mimics what a good parent does.

sliči onome što dobar roditelj čini.

They harass you, right? They call you, they say,

Maltretiraju te, jel'? Nazivaju te, kažu:

"I want to see your grades. How'd you do on that last test?

"Da vidimo tvoje ocjene. Kako si prošao na posljednjem testu?

What are you talking about that you want to leave school?

O čemu ti to govoriš? Želiš napustiti školu?!

And you're not coming back here."

I ne vraćaš se ovamo?!"

So a bunch of my kids know you can't come back to Harlem

I tako gomila moje djece zna da se ne možeš vratiti u Harlem,

because Geoff is looking for you.

jer Geoff o tebi brine.

They're like, "I really can't come back." No. You'd better stay in school.

Kažu: "Ja se zaista ne mogu vratiti." Ne. Bolje da ostaneš u školi.

But I'm not kidding about some of this,

Ali ne šalim se ja s ovime u vezi

and it gets a little bit to the grit issue.

i to već pomalo graniči s inatom.

When kids know that you refuse to let them fail,

Kad djeca znaju da im nećeš dopustiti da padnu,

it puts a different pressure on them,

time im namećeš dodatni pritisak,

and they don't give up as easy.

i ne odustaju lako.

So sometimes they don't have it inside,

Dakle, ponekad oni to nemaju u sebi,

and they're, like, "You know, I don't want to do this,

i razmišljaju u stilu: "Ma, znaš, ne želim ja to,

but I know my mother's going to be mad."

ali znam da će moja mama poludjeti."

Well, that matters to kids, and it helps get them through.

Djeci je to važno, i pomaže im da izdrže.

We try to create a set of strategies that gets them tutoring

Mi nastojimo osmisliti niz strategija kojima im osiguravamo instrukcije,

and help and support, but also a set of encouragements

pomoć i podršku, ali i niz poticaja

that say to them, "You can do it. It is going to be hard,

koji im govore: "Ti to možeš. Bit će teško,

but we refuse to let you fail."

ali nećemo ti dopustiti da odustaneš."

JL: Well, thank you Dr. Canada.

JL: Pa, hvala Vam, dr. Canada.

Please give it up for him one more time.

Molim Vas još jedan pljesak.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)