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一十八划生 发表于 2010-3-27 11:15:06 |AI写论文

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弗里德曼:美利坚真正的梦之队America’s Real Dream Team,Thomas L. Friedman 周六发表在纽约时报专栏上的最新一篇文章,是今年到现在我看到的最凝练,继而小感动,之后让人汗颜的作品。
文章来自 Friedman 最近在华盛顿参加的一次晚宴,这是个有 40 位主宾参加的宴会。他是这么开头的,“让我列出这些主宾的名字,你们猜猜这是场什么宴会”
Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.
没错,上面一段是我照搬 copy 专栏文章里列出的名字。扫一眼这些拼写,怎么样?这位大师是否是列席了一个有多国头面政经人物出席的活动?…从这些名字看… 一个 中印友好联盟 的晚餐会?
他们都是美国中学生,是Intel Science Talent Search2010 届的 40 名决赛选手。
ISTS 是美国历史最久也最富盛名的科学竞赛(近年也有中国学生参加),在美国国内有时俗称 Baby Nobels 小诺贝尔(老布什任内参加 1991 年届颁奖礼时笑曰 Super Bowl of science)。传统上其评委会里至少有一名诺贝尔奖获得者。在其几十年的历史里,迄今已有 6 个获奖孩子成年后获得了 诺贝尔 奖,另外还有孩子后来成为 Fields 菲尔兹 奖得主,National Medal of Science 国家科学奖得主,30 人成为国家科学院院士等等。这个比赛在全美国范围内的高中生间展开,发现并奖励那些在数学、科学方面最出色的人才,竞赛内容是考察他们对科学难题的解决方案。

好了,回到正题,扫一眼上面的名字,Friedman 和我们一样都注意到了:很多获奖者来自移民家庭,而且很多是亚洲 —- 不过,我今天不是要说亚裔移民的美国生活现状,更不想这份名单成为白痴愤青中华优越论的佐证。我觉得这篇文章有意思,是看 Friedman 如何简洁地解释一个国家怎么做到保持优秀,如何面对当下的麻烦,以及,抽丝剥茧看这个国度的核心竞争力是什么。
Friedman 是个坚定的挺移民派。ISTS 决赛晚宴就是一个关于移民之积极效应的绝佳说服力之处。他说“我认为保持一个进入我们国家的持续不断的合法移民流 —- 不论他们是蓝领还是白大褂 —- 是保持我们领先于中国的关键。 I think keeping a constant flow of legal immigrants into our country — whether they wear blue collars or lab coats — is the key to keeping us ahead of China.” 白大褂者,高端也。
然后这句话是精华同时又让人感慨万千,是我发在 twitter 上选择的那句:

因为当你把这些活力四射又抱负远大的人和民主制度以及自由市场放在一块的时候,magic happens。
Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens.

我喜欢这句精确地点明本质要素的话,虽然这几样要素刺得人眼睛火辣辣地疼,刺得人心沉甸甸地重。
”如果我们希望保持这种魔力,我们需要移民改革,这种改革能保证我们将总能吸引并拥有,这个世界上最具抱负最有才智的人才种子“。显然,基于这种“引入”观点,言下之意很明白,“引入”的那部分会成为美国的一部分,“他们”会成为“我们”。
Friedman 道出了他认为美国人可以完全不介意的事情 —- 美国人当下却十分介意这些 —- 设计,制造,服务都以各种各样的形式流出美国,不论主动还是被动,看上去外面世界的所有人都把这些事情做得要么更好,要么更便宜。对此 Friedman 的看法是,“在今天这个关联世界里,最重要的经济竞争不再是国与国之间的。最重要的经济竞争其实是在你和你自己的愿景/想象力间。“今天的世界,差不多所有东西都在变成日用品一般,除了想象力,除了能迸发 ieda 的能力 (the ability to spark new ideas)。
我今天有个 idea,”就能让台湾的设计师设计,在中国制作原型,在越南大规模生产,在 Amazon.com 销售,还有 freelancer.com 找到人来设计 logo 管理 backroom“。如此这般,所有工作都能完成,而且还是以超低的价格像购买日用品一样完成 —- 只有一件例外,这一件永远例外 —- 迸发这个 idea。Friedman 在 ISTS 上看到的不是肤色,名字,年纪,而是美利坚最好的 idea 创造者,是最珍贵的宝石 (sparkler 可做双关)。

他在晚宴上和一位 30 岁的生物学指导老师 Amanda Alonzo 交谈。Amanda 一人就指导了两个获奖项目,Friedman 问她有何秘诀,Amanda 说三大法宝:学校提供的资源,极为支持她的家长,还有 Intel 的资助。更好玩的是,这位来自加州 San Jose 圣何塞 的老师说,本地的房产经纪都开始在中国和印度的报纸上为 San Jose 的房产打广告了,广告里引诱潜在移民的卖点是:来我们这个校区买房吧,我们这儿可产生了两个 Intel 科学竞赛获奖者!
晚宴上最后宣布了竞赛最终获胜者,还有获得 10万 美元奖金的 40 个项目中的最佳项目得奖者,这次是来自 New Mexico 新墨西哥 州的 Erika Alden DeBenedictis,她的项目是一个软件导航系统,可以让宇宙飞船在太阳系里更高效地航行。
Friedman 说这是他在首府 20 年时间里最感到鼓舞的晚上(看来他以前没参加过……)。他觉得如果美国”能纠正那么几件事—- 移民,教育标准,宽带和财政政策 —- 我们就没什么麻烦了“。他觉得被同伴推举为最后发言人的 Alice Wei Zhao 说的对,”不用为我们这一代将要面对的问题太过操心。相信我,未来在我们这些你们可以信得过的人手中。“ —- Friedman:只要我们不关上美国的大门。
我觉得对一个写了 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century 的人来说,他的观点(或者叫结论,如果这么正式的话)是自然的,只是这几个点正好点到有人的痛处。

虽然移民话题更像主旨,不过我还喜欢文章里道出的几个明白逻辑:开放,人才,制度,核心竞争力。这里几乎每一点都可以直逼以太平洋做镜子映出的另一面的每一个不同:我们防人防己,不以开放为然,而以控制统治为第一手段;我们不要高中生神飞太空牵挂飞船,我们要他们听话驯服想得越少越好办,越浅越好办;我们难得涌现活力四射的人才,数量不多,还常常被逼得四面楚歌;我们没有像样的制度甚至宣称不要像样的制度,因为有人说我们只走自己的路;我们不以教育为未来依托,我们以土地和消耗资源顾眼前为唯一原则;我们叫嚷核心竞争力,最后发现我们当下唯一的最强竞争力别人却可以随时转托出去;我们宣称已然盛世因为凶猛的 GDP,却发现聪明人自不语忙着用脚投票,希望生活不要在这个盛世里继续。
Friedman 说的不一定是唯一必备要素或唯一成功的方法,不过读罢还是有种摆脱不了的感觉,好像多年不愿直面的事情,被人点破,并剥光你所有的幻想,面对缺失和差距,再也无法自欺欺人,一种无能为力的破碎感冲击而来,好象揭示了一个接受不了的事实:我们的 magic 会不会永远都不能发生。
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一十八划生 发表于 2010-3-27 11:15:29
下文为弗雷德曼原文:America’s Real Dream Team
The New York Times,Thomas L. Friedman
Went to a big Washington dinner last week. You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses. But this was no ordinary dinner. There were 40 guests of honor. So here’s my Sunday news quiz: I’ll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me what dinner I was at. Ready?
Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.
No, sorry, it was not a dinner of the China-India Friendship League. Give up?
O.K. All these kids are American high school students. They were the majority of the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, which, through a national contest, identifies and honors the top math and science high school students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems. The awards dinner was Tuesday, and, as you can see from the above list, most finalists hailed from immigrant families, largely from Asia.
Indeed, if you need any more convincing about the virtues of immigration, just come to the Intel science finals. I am a pro-immigration fanatic. I think keeping a constant flow of legal immigrants into our country — whether they wear blue collars or lab coats — is the key to keeping us ahead of China. Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens. If we hope to keep that magic, we need immigration reform that guarantees that we will always attract and retain, in an orderly fashion, the world’s first-round aspirational and intellectual draft choices.
This isn’t complicated. In today’s wired world, the most important economic competition is no longer between countries or companies. The most important economic competition is actually between you and your own imagination. Because what your kids imagine, they can now act on farther, faster, cheaper than ever before — as individuals. Today, just about everything is becoming a commodity, except imagination, except the ability to spark new ideas.
If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it. I can use Amazon.com to handle fulfillment. I can use freelancer.com to find someone to do my logo and manage my backroom. And I can do all this at incredibly low prices. The one thing that is not a commodity and never will be is that spark of an idea. And this Intel dinner was all about our best sparklers.
Before the dinner started, each contestant stood by a storyboard explaining their specific project. Namrata Anand, a 17-year-old from the Harker School in California, patiently explained to me her research, which used spectral analysis and other data to expose information about the chemical enrichment history of “Andromeda Galaxy.” I did not understand a word she said, but I sure caught the gleam in her eye.
My favorite chat, though, was with Amanda Alonzo, a 30-year-old biology teacher at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, Calif. She had taught two of the finalists. When I asked her the secret, she said it was the resources provided by her school, extremely “supportive parents” and a grant from Intel that let her spend part of each day inspiring and preparing students to enter this contest. Then she told me this: Local San Jose realtors are running ads in newspapers in China and India telling potential immigrants to “buy a home” in her Lynbrook school district because it produced “two Intel science winners.”
Seriously, ESPN or MTV should broadcast the Intel finals live. All of the 40 finalists are introduced, with little stories about their lives and aspirations. Then the winners of the nine best projects are announced. And finally, with great drama, the overall winner of the $100,000 award for the best project of the 40 is identified. This year it was Erika Alden DeBenedictis of New Mexico for developing a software navigation system that would enable spacecraft to more efficiently “travel through the solar system.” After her name was called, she was swarmed by her fellow competitor-geeks.
Gotta say, it was the most inspiring evening I’ve had in D.C. in 20 years. It left me thinking, “If we can just get a few things right — immigration, education standards, bandwidth, fiscal policy — maybe we’ll be O.K.” It left me feeling that maybe Alice Wei Zhao of North High School in Sheboygan, Wis., chosen by her fellow finalists to be their spokeswoman, was right when she told the audience: “Don’t sweat about the problems our generation will have to deal with. Believe me, our future is in good hands.”
As long as we don’t shut our doors.
天之道,利而不害;圣人之道,为而不争

藤椅
wensnt 发表于 2010-3-27 11:21:37
美国的大学就是俄国的教师在美国的教室给中国的学生上课

板凳
juncaiy 发表于 2010-3-27 11:41:09
值得思考,沉思啊!当今的中国教育一直号召做大做强!可却不明白做大做强的根本——人的magic.

报纸
sfpg1234 发表于 2010-3-27 11:47:37
中国不是老大,也不太想成为老大。要野心干什么呢?我们离美国还很远呢。
树熊图腾zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

地板
Songzhen07 发表于 2010-3-27 12:57:56
5# sfpg1234 ,这是无关于是否是老大,是否是赶超,这是最基本的保持一个民族的活力,长远的发展,难道真的要成为一潭死水?!。何必总是比,而且每次都把自己放在低的位置呢。
好学近乎知,知耻近乎勇,力行近乎仁。

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一十八划生 发表于 2010-3-27 16:42:35
法乎其上,得乎其中,懂不懂?什么都是跟,跟在别人屁股后面,没有自己的战略远见,也就不会有从根本上进行创新的动力!建议你有机会找来1976年一篇题为《中国人为什么必须反对洋奴哲学》的文章读读。
有的同志,学滋阴不壮阳的古典经济学学傻了! 5# sfpg1234
天之道,利而不害;圣人之道,为而不争

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