Our failing schools. Enough is enough! | Geoffrey Canada

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevodilac: Bojana Aćamović Lektor: Miloš Milosavljević

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

Malo sam nervozan, jer mi je moja žena Ivon rekla:

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

"Džef, ti gledaš TED govore."

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

Rekao sam: "Da, dušo, ja obožavam TED govore."

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

Ona je rekla: "Znaš, oni su pametni, talentovani."

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

Rekao sam: "Znam, znam." (Smeh)

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

Rekla je: "Oni ne žele besnog crnca."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

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

Pa sam ja rekao: "Ne, biću dobar, dušo,

I'm gonna be good. I am."

biću dobar. Stvarno."

But I am angry. (Laughter)

Ali ja jesam besan. (Smeh)

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

Poslednji put kad sam gledao, bio sam -

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

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

Dakle ovo je razlog što sam uzbuđen, ali besan.

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

Ove godine, mi ćemo milione naše dece

that we're going to needlessly lose,

bespotrebno da izgubimo,

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

a mogli bismo upravo sada da ih sve spasemo.

You saw the quality of the educators who were here.

Videli ste kvalitet edukatora koji su bili ovde.

Do not tell me they could not reach those kids

Nemojte mi reći da oni ne bi mogli da dopru do te dece

and save them. I know they could.

i da ih spasu. Znam da bi mogli.

It is absolutely possible.

To je apsolutno moguće.

Why haven't we fixed this?

Zašto to nismo sredili?

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

Mi u sferi obrazovanja držimo se poslovnog plana

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

po kome nas nije briga koliko miliona mladih ne uspe,

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

mi ćemo nastaviti da radimo isto ono što nije funkcionisalo

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

i niko ne ludi zbog toga - je li tako? -

enough to say, "Enough is enough."

dovoljno da bi rekao: "Što je dosta, dosta je."

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

Dakle, imamo poslovni plan koji jednostavno nema nikakvog smisla.

You know, I grew up in the inner city,

Znate, ja sam odrastao u siromašnijem delu grada

and there were kids who were failing

i bilo je dece koja su ponavljala razrede

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

u školama pre 56 godina kada sam ja krenuo u školu,

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

a te škole su i danas i dalje jadne, 56 godina kasnije.

And you know something about a lousy school?

A da vam kažem nešto o jadnim školama.

It's not like a bottle of wine.

One nisu poput boce vina.

Right? (Laughter)

Je li tako? (Smeh)

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

Gde kažete, '87. je bila dobra godina, je li tako?

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

Tako i ovo - apsolutno svake godine,

it's still the same approach, right?

i dalje isti pristup, zar ne?

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

Isti pristup za sve, ako kapirate, u redu je, a ako ne,

tough luck. Just tough luck.

nemate sreće. Prosto nemate sreće.

Why haven't we allowed innovation to happen?

Zašto ne dopuštamo da se događaju inovacije?

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

Nemojte mi govoriti da ne možemo bolje od ovoga.

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

Vidite, odete na mesto koje 50 godina beleži neuspehe sa decom,

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

i pitate: "Pa, kakav je plan?"

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

A oni kažu: "Uradićemo ono

what we did last year this year."

što smo uradili i prošle godine."

What kind of business model is that?

Kakav je to model poslovanja?

Banks used to open and operate between 10 and 3.

Banke su se nekada otvarale i radile od 10 do 3.

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

Radile su od 10 do 3. Bile su zatvorene za vreme ručka.

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

Ko to može da ide u banku između 10 i 3? Nezaposleni.

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

Njima ne trebaju banke. Oni nemaju novca u bankama.

Who created that business model? Right?

Ko je napravio taj model poslovanja? Je li tako?

And it went on for decades.

I to se nastavljalo decenijama.

You know why? Because they didn't care.

Znate zašto? Jer ih nije bilo briga.

It wasn't about the customers.

Nije se radilo o klijentima.

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

Radilo se o bankarima. Oni su napravili nešto što odgovara njima.

How could you go to the bank

Kako biste mogli da odete u banku

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

kada ste na poslu? Nije bilo važno.

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

I njih nije briga da li se Džef nervira

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

što ne može da ode u banku. Idi nađi drugu banku.

They all operate the same way. Right?

One sve rade na isti način. Je li tako?

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

Jednoga dana, neki ludi bankar je došao na ideju.

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

Možda bi trebalo da banke budu otvorene kada se ljudi vraćaju sa posla.

They might like that. What about a Saturday?

Možda bi im se to dopalo. A subotom?

What about introducing technology?

A da se ubaci tehnologija?

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

Znate, ja obožavam tehnologiju, ali moram da priznam svima vama

to you all I'm a little old.

da sam pomalo star.

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

Tako da sam bio pomalo spor i nisam verovao tehnologiji

and when they first came out with those new contraptions,

i kada su prvi put izbacili one nove naprave,

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

one automate u koje staviš karticu a oni ti daju novac,

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

mislio sam: "Nema šanse da će ta mašina da prebroji taj novac kako treba.

I am never using that, right?"

Ja to neću da koristim."

So technology has changed. Things have changed.

Dakle, tehnologija se promenila. Stvari su se promenile.

Yet not in education. Why?

Ali ne i u obrazovanju. Zašto?

Why is it that when we had rotary phones,

Kako to da smo tada, u vreme telefona sa brojčanicima,

when we were having folks being crippled by polio,

u vreme kada su ljudi ostajali obogaljeni dečjom paralizom,

that we were teaching

nastavu držali na isti način

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

kao što to radimo sada?

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

A ako smislite plan da promenite stvari,

people consider you radical.

ljudi vas smatraju radikalnim.

They will say the worst things about you.

Govoriće najgore stvari o vama.

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

Rekao sam jednom, pa, vidite, ako nauka kaže -

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

ovo je nauka, ne ja - da naša najsiromašnija deca

lose ground in the summertime --

zaostaju tokom leta.

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

Vidite gde se nalaze u junu i kažete, okej, tu su.

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

Pogledate ih u septembru, otišli su nizbrdo.

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

Kažete: "Slušao sam o tome '75.

when I was at the Ed School at Harvard.

kada sam bio na Fakultetu za obrazovanje na Harvardu.

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

Rekao sam: "To je važna studija.

Because it suggests we should do something.

Jer ukazuje na to da treba da uradimo nešto."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Every 10 years they reproduce the same study.

Svakih 10 godina, oni iznova sprovedu tu istu studiju.

It says exactly the same thing:

Ona pokaže potpuno istu stvar:

Poor kids lose ground in the summertime.

Siromašna deca zaostaju tokom leta.

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

Sistem odlučuje da škole ne mogu da rade leti.

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

Znate, uvek se pitam, ko smišlja ta pravila?

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

Godinama sam studirao na Fakultetu za obrazovanje na Harvardu.

I thought I knew something.

Mislio sam da znam nešto.

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

Govorili su da je to poljoprivredni kalendar, da ljudi imaju -

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

ali da vam kažem zašto to nema smisla.

I never got that. I never got that,

Nikada to nisam razumeo,

because anyone knows if you farm,

jer svi znaju da ako se bavite poljoprivredom,

you don't plant crops in July and August.

ne sejete useve u julu i avgustu.

You plant them in the spring.

Sejete ih u proleće.

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

Pa ko je onda došao na ovu ideju? Čija je ona?

Why did we ever do it?

Zašto smo to ikada radili?

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

Pa, ispostavilo se da smo četrdesetih godina 19. veka

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

imali škole otvorene cele godine. Bile su otvorene cele godine,

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

jer smo imali dosta ljudi koji su morali da rade po ceo dan.

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

Nisu imali gde da ostave decu.

It was a perfect place to have schools.

Bilo je savršeno imati škole.

So this is not something that is ordained

Dakle ovo nije nekakva zapovest

from the education gods.

bogova obrazovanja.

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

Pa zašto ne uradimo to?

Because our business has refused to use science.

Jer naš posao odbija da upotrebi nauku.

Science. You have Bill Gates coming out and saying,

Nauka! Imate Bila Gejtsa koji izađe i kaže:

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

"Vidite, ovo funkcioniše, je li tako? Mi to možemo ."

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

Koliko mesta u Americi će se promeniti? Nijedno.

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

Nijedno. U redu, da, postoje dva.

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

Da, naći će se neko mesto, jer će neki ljudi uraditi pravu stvar.

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

Kao profesija, moramo da zaustavimo ovo. Nauka je jasna.

Here's what we know.

Ovo znamo:

We know that the problem begins immediately.

znamo da problem počinje odmah.

Right? This idea, zero to three.

Je li tako? Ova ideja, nula prema tri.

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

Moja žena Ivon i ja imamo četvoro dece,

three grown ones and a 15-year-old.

troje odrasle i jedno petnaestogodišnje.

That's a longer story.

To je duža priča.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

With our first kids, we did not know the science

Kod naše prve dece, nismo poznavali nauku

about brain development.

o razvoju mozga.

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

Nismo znali koliko su ključne te prve tri godine.

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

Nismo znali šta se dešava u tim mladim mozgovima.

We didn't know the role that language,

Nismo znali ulogu jezika,

a stimulus and response, call and response,

nadražaja i reakcije, pitanja i odgovora,

how important that was in developing those children.

koliko je to značajno za razvoj te dece.

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

Sada to znamo. Šta radimo u vezi sa tim? Ništa.

Wealthy people know. Educated people know.

Bogati ljudi znaju. Obrazovani ljudi znaju.

And their kids have an advantage.

I njihova deca imaju prednost.

Poor people don't know,

Siromašni ljudi ne znaju,

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

a mi ne radimo baš ništa da im pomognemo.

But we know this is critical.

Ali znamo da je to ključno.

Now, you take pre-kindergarten.

Uzmite obdanište, na primer.

We know it's important for kids.

Znamo da je važno za decu.

Poor kids need that experience.

Siromašnoj deci je potrebno to iskustvo.

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

Ne. U mnogim mestima ne postoji.

We know health services matter.

Znamo da su zdravstvene usluge važne.

You know, we provide health services

Znate, mi obezbeđujemo zdravstvene usluge

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

i ljudi se uvek žale na mene

because I'm all into accountability and data

jer sam okupiran odgovornošću i podacima

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

i svim tim dobrim stvarima, ali nama zaista trebaju zdravstvene usluge

and I have to raise a lot of money.

i ja moram da prikupim dosta novca.

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

Ljudi bi govorili kada bi došli da nas finansiraju:

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

"Džef, zašto obezbeđujete ove zdravstvene usluge?"

I used to make stuff up. Right?

Ja bih izmišljao.

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

Rekao bih: "Pa, znate, dete

who has cavities is not going to, uh,

koje ima pokvarene zube

be able to study as well."

neće moći da uči tako dobro."

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

A morao sam, jer sam morao da prikupim novac.

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

Ali sada kad sam stariji, znate šta im kažem?

You know why I provide kids with those health benefits

Znate zašto obezbeđujem deci ove zdravstvene beneficije

and the sports and the recreation and the arts?

i sportske aktivnosti i rekreaciju i umetnost?

Because I actually like kids.

Zato što zapravo volim decu.

I actually like kids. (Laughter) (Applause)

Ja zapravo volim decu. (Smeh) (Aplauz)

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

Ali kada postanu stvarno navalentni,

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

kažem: "Radim to jer i vi to radite za svoje dete."

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

A nikada niste pročitali studiju sa MIT-a koja kaže

giving your kid dance instruction

da će to što dete vodite na časove plesa

is going to help them do algebra better,

njemu pomoći da bolje radi algebru,

but you will give that kid dance instruction,

ali vi ćete voditi to dete na časove plesa

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

i bićete oduševljeni što dete želi da ide na časove plesa

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

i to će vam ulepšati dan. I zašto ne bi siromašna deca

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

imala istu priliku? To je temelj za ovu decu.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

So here's the other thing.

A evo i druge stvari.

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

Ja sam tip koji voli testove. Smatram da vam trebaju podaci, informacije,

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

jer radite na nečemu, mislite da funkcioniše,

and you find out it's not working.

a otkrijete da ne funkcioniše.

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

Vi ste edukatori, radite,

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

i mislite da ste uspeli. A otkrijete da niste.

But here's the problem with testing.

Ali evo problema kod testiranja.

The testing that we do --

Testiranja koja mi obavljamo -

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

imaćemo testiranje u Njujorku sledeće sedmice -

is in April.

sprovode se u aprilu.

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

Znate kada ćemo dobiti rezultate?

Maybe July, maybe June.

Možda u julu, možda u junu.

And the results have great data.

A rezultati sadrže sjajne podatke.

They'll tell you Raheem really struggled,

Reći će vam da se Rahim stvarno namučio,

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

nije znao da pomnoži dvocifrene brojeve - tako sjajni podaci,

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

ali dobijate ih kada je škola završena.

And so, what do you do?

I onda, šta radite?

You go on vacation. (Laughter)

Odete na odmor. (Smeh)

You come back from vacation.

Vratite se sa odmora.

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

Sad imate sve ove podatke sa testiranja od prošle godine.

You don't look at it.

Ne gledate ih.

Why would you look at it?

Zašto biste ih gledali?

You're going to go and teach this year.

Mi ćemo da držimo nastavu ove godine.

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

Dakle, koliko novca smo 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 koje je suviše kasno da se upotrebe.

I need that data in September.

Ti podaci mi trebaju u septembru.

I need that data in November.

Ti podaci mi trebaju u novembru.

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

Moram da znam da se mučite i moram da znam

whether or not what I did corrected that.

da li je ono što sam uradio, to popravilo.

I need to know that this week.

Moram to da znam ove sedmice.

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

Ne moram da znam na kraju godine kada je prekasno.

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

Zato što sam u svojim poznijim godinama, postao pomalo vidovnjak.

I can predict school scores.

Mogu da predvidim 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.

Stvarno sam dobar za problematične škole iz siromašnih četvrti.

And you tell me last year 48 percent of those kids

I kažete mi da je prošle godine 48 procenata te dece

were on grade level.

bilo na nivou tog razreda.

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

A ja kažem: "U redu, kakav je plan, šta smo uradili

from last year to this year?"

od prošle do ove godine?"

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

Vi kažete: "Mi radimo istu stvar."

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

Meni se javlja: (Smeh)

This year, somewhere between 44

Ove godine, negde između 44

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

i 52 procenta te dece biće na nivou svog razreda.

And I will be right every single time.

I biću u pravu apsolutno svaki put.

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

Dakle mi trošimo sav taj novac, ali dobijamo šta?

Teachers need real information right now

Nastavnicima su potrebne prave informacije odmah

about what's happening to their kids.

o onome što se dešava njihovoj deci.

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

Visoki ulozi su danas, jer tu možete da uradite nešto.

So here's the other issue that I just think

Evo i drugog pitanja u vezi sa kojim mislim

we've got to be concerned about.

da moramo da se zabrinemo.

We can't stifle innovation in our business.

Ne možemo da gušimo inovacije u našem poslu.

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

Moramo da ih uvodimo. A ljudi u našem poslu polude zbog inovacija.

They get angry if you do something different.

Naljute se ako uradite nešto drugačije.

If you try something new, people are always like,

Ako pokušate nešto novo, ljudi uvek kažu:

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

"Oh, škole sa posebnim pravilnicima." Pa, hajde da isprobamo nešto. Da vidimo.

This stuff hasn't worked for 55 years.

Ovo ne funkcioniše već 55 godina.

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

Hajde da probamo nešto drugo. I tu je problem.

Some of it's not going to work.

Nešto od toga neće funkcionisati.

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

Ljudi kažu: "One škole sa posebnim pravilnicima, mnoge ne funkcionišu."

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

Mnoge ne funkcionišu. Treba ih zatvoriti.

I mean, I really believe they should be closed.

Stvarno smatram da ih treba zatvoriti.

But we can't confuse figuring out the science

Ali ne možemo mešati razmišljanje o nauci

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

i to da stvari ne funkcionišu, sa tim da stoga ne treba ništa raditi.

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

Jer svet ne funkcioniše tako.

If you think about technology,

Ako pomislite 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 funkcionisalo,

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

da smo digli ruke i rekli: "Zaboravimo na to".

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

Ubedili su me da - a siguran sam, i neke od vas -

the latest and greatest thing, the PalmPilot.

da je "PalmPilot" najnovija i najbolja stvar.

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

Rekli su mi: "Džef, ako uzmeš ovaj 'PalmPilot'

you'll never need another thing."

nikada ti neće trebati ništa drugo".

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

Ta stvar je trajala tri nedelje i gotovo!

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

Osećao sam se odvratno što sam potrošio novac na to.

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

Da li su prestali da pronalaze nove stvari? Nisu.

The folks went out there. They kept inventing.

Ti ljudi su napravili iskorak. Nastavili su sa pronalascima.

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

Činjenica da pretrpite neuspeh ne treba da vas spreči

from pushing the science forward.

da gurate nauku napred.

Our job as educators,

Naš posao kao edukatora -

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

tu su neke stvari za koje znamo da možemo da ih uradimo.

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

I moramo da poboljšavamo. Moramo da počnemo sa procenom dece ranije,

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

moramo da budemo sigurni da pružamo podršku mladima.

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

Moramo da im damo sve te mogućnosti.

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

To moramo da uradimo. Ali ovo pitanje inovacija,

this idea that we've got to keep innovating

ideja da moramo da nastavimo sa inovacijama

until we really nail this science down

dok zaista ne savladamo tu nauku,

is something that is absolutely critical.

to je nešto što je od ključne važnosti.

And this is something, by the way,

I usput, to je nešto

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

što mislim da će biti izazov za celu našu profesiju.

America cannot wait another 50 years to get this right.

Amerika ne može da čeka još 50 godina da to dovede u red.

We have run out of time.

Ponestalo nam je vremena.

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

Ne znam ništa o fiskalnoj litici, ali znam da postoji obrazovna litica

that we are walking over right this very second,

po kojoj hodamo baš ovog sekunda,

and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness

i ako dozvolimo da se nastavi sa tom ludošću,

about saying we can't afford this —

da se govori kako ne možemo to da priuštimo.

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

Bil Gejts kaže da će to koštati pet milijardi dolara.

What is five billion dollars to the United States?

šta je pet milijardi dolara za SAD?

What did we spend in Afghanistan this year?

Koliko smo potrošili u Avganistanu ove godine?

How many trillions? (Applause)

Koliko biliona?

When the country cares about something,

Kada je državi stalo do nečega,

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

potrošićemo bilion dolara a da ne trepnemo.

When the safety of America is threatened,

Kada je ugrožena bezbednost Amerike,

we will spend any amount of money.

potrošićemo bilo koju sumu novca.

The real safety of our nation

Prava bezbednost naše nacije

is preparing this next generation

jeste pripremanje sledeće generacije

so that they can take our place

da mogu da zauzmu naše mesto

and be the leaders of the world

i budu lideri sveta

when it comes to thinking and technology and democracy

u mišljenju, tehnologiji i demokratiji

and all that stuff we care about.

i svim tim stvarima do kojih nam je stalo.

I dare say it's a pittance,

Rekao bih da je to skromna suma

what it would require for us to really

koja je potrebna da zaista

begin to solve some of these problems.

počnemo da rešavamo neke od ovih problema.

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

Kada ovo uradimo, ja više neću biti besan. (Smeh)

So, you guys, help me get there.

Narode, pomozite mi u tome.

Thank you all very much. Thank you.

Hvala mnogo svima. Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

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

[Džon Ledžend:] Kolika je stopa učenika koji su napustili srednju školu u Harlemu?

Geoffrey Canada: Well, you know, John,

[Džefri Kanada:] Pa, ovako, Džon,

100 percent of our kids graduated high school

100 procenata dece je završilo srednju školu

last year in my school.

prošle godine kod mene.

A hundred percent of them went to college.

Sto procenata njih je otišlo na koledž.

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

Ove godine će 100 procenata maturanata završiti srednju školu.

Last I heard we had 93 percent accepted to college.

Poslednje što sam čuo je da je 93 procenta primljeno na koledž.

We'd better get that other seven percent.

Bolje da se pobrinemo za tih ostalih 7 procenata.

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

Dakle, tako to ide. (Aplauz)

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

Dž.L.: A kako ostajete u kontaktu s njima kada završe srednju školu?

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

Dž.K.: Znate, jedan od velikih problema

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

koje imamo u ovoj zemlji jesu ova deca,

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

ta ista ranjiva deca, kada ih dovedete u školu,

they drop out in record numbers.

ona je napuštaju u rekordnim brojevima.

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

I tako smo zaključili da morate da zaista osmislite

a network of support for these kids that in many ways

mrežu podrške za ovu decu koja na mnogo načina

mimics what a good parent does.

podražava ono što radi dobar roditelj.

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

Oni vas maltretiraju, zar ne? Zovu vas, kažu:

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

"Hoću da vidim tvoje ocene. Šta si uradio na tom poslednjem testu?

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

Šta to pričaš da hoćeš da napustiš školu?

And you're not coming back here."

Ovde se ne vraćaš."

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

Gomila moje dece zna da se ne mogu vratiti u Harlem

because Geoff is looking for you.

jer ih Džef prati.

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

Razmišljaju: "Ne mogu da se vratim." Ne. Bolje ostani u školi.

But I'm not kidding about some of this,

Ali ne šalim se u vezi nekih stvari,

and it gets a little bit to the grit issue.

i pomalo se radi i o srčanosti.

When kids know that you refuse to let them fail,

Kada deca znaju da vi odbijate da im dopustite da padnu,

it puts a different pressure on them,

to na njih vrši drugačiji pritisak

and they don't give up as easy.

i ne odustaju tako lako.

So sometimes they don't have it inside,

Oni nekad nemaju to u sebi

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

i kažu: "Znate, ja neću da radim ovo,

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

ali znam da će se majka ljutiti."

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

To deci znači i pomaže im da istraju.

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

Mi pokušavamo da napravimo strategije koje im pružaju tutorstvo

and help and support, but also a set of encouragements

i pomoć i podršku, ali i ohrabrenja

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

koja im govore: "Ti možeš ovo. Biće teško,

but we refuse to let you fail."

ali mi odbijamo da te pustimo da ne uspeš."

JL: Well, thank you Dr. Canada.

Dž.L.: Hvala Vam, dr Kanada.

Please give it up for him one more time.

Molim još jednom aplauz.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)