CNN News:橄欖球運動員Derrick Brooks和他的特許學校

Derrick Brooks doesn`t just have a great throwing arm. He was a linebacker on that Tampa Bay title team, won a championship in college, too, when he played at Florida State.

Derrick Brooks不僅有結(jié)實的胳膊，還是坦帕灣球隊中后衛(wèi)球員。在佛羅里達大學上學時獲得了聯(lián)賽冠軍。

While he was tackling quarterbacks on the field, Brooks was also tackling education off of it. I had a chance to talk with him not too long ago about the charter school he helped found in the Tampa, Florida, area, and his life`s mission to educate students.

Derrick Brooks不僅馳騁在橄欖球場上，在教育界也是獨占鰲頭。我有幸不久前對他在佛羅里達坦帕市設(shè)立特許學校一事進行過訪談，采訪中談到他人生任務(wù)就是教育學生。

There are a lot of different ways that athletes and celebrities choose to give back. What made you want to co-found a charter school?

其實有很多種不同的方式供運動員或者名人選擇去回報社會，是什么讓你選擇建立學校呢?

The nugget for me that drew me more than anything was the opportunity to affect more than the 35 to 50 kids that were part of Derrick Brooks Charities, that we can expand that audience, and I`ll have the opportunity to be in one building, four years building a relationship with our students and really having the opportunity to produce the next best citizens I can.

推動我開辦特許學校的動力來自于孩子們對我的追隨，我想通過自己影響他們。這樣我們就可以擴大隊伍，然而我也就可以有機會成為其中的一員，與學生們建立良好的關(guān)系，才有可能幫助下一代人的成長。

What was harder to do, to co-found the charter school or to win the Super Bowl?

那什么更困難一些呢，是開辦學校還是的冠軍?

I always think each one has its challenges, and I would definitely say starting a charter school is by far, I would say, harder.

每個都具有挑戰(zhàn)性，但是說實話，開辦學校對我來說更困難一些。

When you`re starting a charter school from scratch, you know, you have to overcome a lot of hurdles in order to do it. Just a simple application part of it, you know, we had to get approved. We went in with a academic agenda that we wanted to put kids in college.

當你開始籌建學校的時候就有很多困難等著你去解決。就像一個簡單應(yīng)用程序的一部分，我們必須得到允許。我們把讓孩子上大學提到了學術(shù)議程里。

And when it comes to the education that you encourage among students, I mean, you played at every single game with Tampa Bay. You started 221 times out of 224 games. Does that help you encourage perfect attendance?

你對學生有著非常大的激勵作用，我是指你在與坦帕灣隊打的每一場比賽。所有224場比賽中你參加了221場，這會給你帶來全勤獎么?

To say the least.

可以這樣說。

Yes, well, basically, I guess the, you know, what it does allow me, my professional career, is show them a model of consistency.

我整個職業(yè)生涯的表現(xiàn)對他們來說具有模范性。

That, hey, you have to show up every day. If you show up every day, you`ll be rewarded.

你每天都出現(xiàn)，如果你每天都參加工作的話你就會受獎賞。

There are -- there are a number of students in our target audience who talk to us about how they`re hoping to play professional sports, whether that`s basketball, baseball or football, and yet such a tiny fraction, such a tiny percentage has the God-given talent needed to play professionally.

在我們的觀眾當中有很多學生告訴我們說想成為職業(yè)運動員，籃球運動員也好，或者棒球或者足球運動員。但是我們都知道只有一小部分，非常小的一些人才有機會成為職業(yè)運動員。

What would you tell those students? How do you encourage them to have a backup plan?

你會告訴他們什么呢。你怎樣鼓勵他們?yōu)樽约簻蕚浜舐贰?/p>

I tell those students that they have a better chance of becoming a doctor and winning the lottery than (inaudible).

我告訴那些學生成為一名醫(yī)生拿獎金比成為職業(yè)運動員要容易得多。

That`s the reality.

這是事實。

Yes, that`s the reality of what it is. And I don`t really look at education as a backup plan. And that`s another thing that I tell kids. Hey, sports needs to be your backup plan. Education is part of your number one.

我不認同把教育當做是第二方案。那是另外一回事。運動同樣需要知識，需要你掌握你所謂的第二方案。知識是你成為運動員路上必不可少的成分。

I just want to know, in your words, what`s the most important thing about an education?

我只想知道在你眼里，接受教育最重要的是什么。

I think the most important thing about a education is you, the person, have to take advantage of it. And education, to me, is the one role that you can go down in life and become anything that you want, because what is a business career, a sports career and whatever you do, education is going to be on that road to success.

我認為接受教育掌握知識最重要的一點是，你可以利用它。對我來說，教育是生活中的一個重要角色。你可以成為任何你想成為的。無論是商業(yè)，還是運動行業(yè)，任何你所從事的行業(yè)，教育都可以使你通往成功的道路。