吉川英治の「ストレート・トーク」

Men on the safest roads

「無難な道を行く」男を「男」とは呼べない。
だってナメクジは、虎じゃないから。

It's not right to call those men who always

choose the safest roads "men" because

we just can't call slugs tigers.

Being alive

Being alive doesn't mean you're living.
No big dream. No living.
Not helping nature, animals,

bugs and people. No true living.

息をしてても「生きてる」とは言えない。
でっかい夢がなきゃ生きてない。
自然、生き物、人を助けてなきゃ

「真に生きて」はない。

New different friends

Make friends outside of your circle,

someone who does totally different things

from totally different world

... if you want to be a bit bigger and smarter.
Keep the balance.

同種の同業の人じゃない友達を作ろう。

全然、別世界の人達を。
それができないのが自分の小ささ、限界の象徴。
同種だったら誰でもできるし快適。
そしてどんどん片寄る。
(同業でしか友達ができない人は、

その世界でも大したことない)

Many friends

It's not the number of friends.
It's the quality.

友達は数じゃない。
クオリティ。

Surround yourself

Surround yourself with people who are better than you.

自分より優れた人達の中にいよう。
すると伸びる。
そうしないと堕落。

目をそらすな

まっすぐ前を見て。
世界から決して目をそむけちゃいけないわ。

ー ヘレン・ケラー

ひとり、ふたり、それ以上

ひとりだとみっともない恥。
ふたりは法律事務所。
それ以上は議会、国会。

… それが「役立たず」の定義じゃよ。

ー ジョン・アダムス

Alvin Toffler on Education

Futurist Alvin Toffler believes our current education system, which developed during Industrial Age society, remains unchanged, even as we have already fully transitioned to a post-industrial society. Below is a transcription of Alvin and Heido Toffler’s views on modern education.

Alvin Toffler:

The best way to understand our basic education system is to go back to how it got started, in the 1800s in the U.S., most young children were farmers working in the world.

When someone proposed that America institute a system of education for all young people, the poor parents said, “No! We can’t allow our kids to go to school. They need to work, otherwise we’ll starve since there won’t be enough hands to work in the fields.” So they opposed public education. The people who favored it were wealthy, and the people who made it happen were Business.

In the late 1800s, the business community said, “All these kids are coming into the factory, but they are coming from the farms and they’re not good factory workers. They come late to work and you can’t count on them. What we need, ” they said, and these are the actual words that they used, “and want is a system that will create ‘industrial discipline.”

What was industrial discipline? Industrial discipline meant you showed up on time and you did the same work again and again just like an assembly line. What happened was we designed schools that actually resembled the factory. If you look at the schools today, they simulate factories; kids have to arrive on time. Why is that? Because in the fields coming late won’t matter much, but if one person comes late to the assembly line there might be a thousand workers doing nothing while waiting for this function to be done before they can work. The cost of a worker coming late is extremely expensive.

Now you train children to arrive on time. You have to be at school at a fixed time. In the U.S., we have hundreds of thousands of kids taken by bus to school. We’re preparing the children to commute to work in the factory.

Now, more and more people aren’t working like that. They are working at home or they are working at different, even strange, hours and you don’t need everyone showing up at exactly the same time. So what we have are schools that are literally designed to provide the work force for an industrial age economy and they do that very well, but that’s not the kind of economy that we have anymore. Therefore, the entire system is obsolete and I was waiting for years for Bill Gates to say something. About two years ago he said the right words: “We can not reform the education system, we must replace it.” He is right because the system is designed to prepare for yesterday, not for tomorrow. Now that is an extremely difficult and painful thing to do. You have millions in the U.S. working in the schools and it’s very dangerous in that they may lose jobs. It doesn’t mean that the teachers are bad. My sister is a teacher and I don’t hate her because she’s a teacher, but the system she’s working in is a disaster today. Therefore, we are going to see battles about education in country after country until this system is broken and replaced.

Risk

It's fun to run risks.
No risk.
No life.

危険を冒すのは楽しい。
そうしない人生は退屈。

Crazy men

When I listen to what crazy men in the
streets talking, they're smarter than most
people because they know how the world
is being controlled and people are not
only exploited but also very blind.
The only part is that their conclusion is
often wrong and it sounds uncontrollable.
That's how they're treated as "crazy".

It's crazy not to go crazy

when you know the truth.

狂った人達の喋る内容は、すごく賢い。
社会がコントロールされ、人が利用され
切っているのに気がつかない愚かさを指摘。
残念なのは結論だけがかなり変で誰もそれを
コントロールできない。
だから気狂い扱いされてる。

狂わない方が狂ってる。

真実を知れば。