英国爱普森马来西亚分院校长：学校要做到培养、教育、启发

　　5月18日，由新浪教育、微博教育、择校行联合主办的新浪&微博2024国际教育春季择校巡展·北京站第二场活动顺利举行。80+所京城及周边城市优质国际化学校受邀出席本次活动，极大地提高了家庭了解学校信息的效率。会上，EPSOM总校长 Mr Matthew Brown接受了新浪教育的采访，以下为采访实录。

　　英国爱普森马来西亚分院校长Mr Matthew Brown

　　主持人：首先，您认为教育的本质是什么？

　　Firstly, what do you think is the essence of education?

　　Mr Matthew Brown：

　　大家好，我叫Matthew Brown，我是英国爱普森马来西亚分院的校长，我在英国有超过25年的教学和领导经验。现在我在马来西亚领导这所学校，教授来自世界各地的学生。

　　Hello，My name is Matthew Brown and I'm the headmaster at Epsom College in Malaysia. I have over 25 years of teaching and leading experience in the UK.But now I'm leading the school in Malaysia, teaching students from all over Asia. 

　　这是一个非常好的问题，也是非常深度的问题。有很多书都在探讨这个问题。从家长的角度想，父母希望孩子是怎样的呢？我们希望他们快乐，希望他们成功，我们希望他们享受学习。所以在学校，我们努力建立师生之间的强大关系。当学生信任老师时，他们就会开始成长，他们会开始变得自信。

　　Well, that is a very good question and very difficult question. There are many books written about this. For me, I think it is about like being a parent. As parents, what do we want for our children? We want them to be happy, we want them to be successful and we want them to enjoy their learning so for us at school we try to build very strong relationships between teachers and students. When the student trust their teachers, they will start to grow and they will start to become confident.

　　在升学方面，我们希望他们有资格进入理想大学，但也许更重要的是，我们希望他们有抱负，希望他们发现自己的热情发现他们想要学习的东西。

　　For education, we want them to have the qualifications to be able to go to the universities, but perhaps more than that we want them to be ambitious. We want them to discover their passions and discover things that they want to study. 

　　身为教育者，我们可以帮助他们找到这些新事物，这样他们在人生中会走得更远。作为父母，就像我说的，我希望我的孩子自信快乐。在英国爱普森马来西亚分院，我们也希望学生们自信，快乐和成功，我认为这是我们在英国爱普森马来西亚分院提供良好的教育，学生的生活就会发生改变。

　　We as teachers can help them to find those new things that will help them go further in life. As a parent, like I said I want my children to be confident and happy, we want the same in EPSOM, confident, happy and successful and I think that's what we can offer in EPSOM. If you have good education, your life will be transformed.

　　一个好的教育者可以帮助学生变得更加自信，真正追随自己的热情和抱负，成为最好的自己，我认为我的学校英国爱普森马来西亚分院是一个发现这些热情和特质的好地方，这些都会引导孩子们在生活中取得成功。

　　Your teachers can help you to become much more confident and really follow your passions and your ambitions to become the very best person you can be. I think EPSOM is a good place to find those passions and those characters that will make you successful.

　　主持人：请您介绍一下EPSOM学校的教育理念和培养目标是什么？

　　Please introduce your school's educational philosophy and objectives.

　　Mr Matthew Brown：

　　我们归结为三个重要的词：培养、教育、启发。所以首先我们必须确保学生感受到关爱，感到快乐、安全，并让他们知道老师们在为他们尽最大努力，让他们觉得自己受到了良好的教育，课程清晰, 这有助于他们前进。

　　We bring it down to three important words: we want to nurture、educate and inspire. So first of all, we have to make sure that the student feels cared for and that they are happy that they feel safe and that they know that their teachers are doing the best for them, that they feel that they are being well taught, that their lessons are clear and it helps them to move forward.

　　在教育方面，我们希望他们获得优越的资格与成绩，这些资格与成绩会给学生解锁各种升大学和职业的机会，更重要的是启发学生。

　　For education we want them to get very good qualifications, the qualifications open up opportunities for university and for career, but the more important thing is to inspire the students.

　　我们花了很多时间寻找来自世界各地的最优秀的老师，目的就是启发年轻人，帮助他们实现那些他们认为不可能做到的梦想，把生活活得多姿多彩，为自己创下目标，在生活中取得成功。我认为教师的力量可以帮助学生变得自信，对我们来说学校的培养目标是关爱、教育资格以及启发，寻找新事物和新方向。

　　We spend many many hours finding the very best teachers from all over the world, who will inspire young people and help them to dream things that they did not think were possible so that they become or they follow degrees or they follow careers that they never thought they could do. It's because of the power of a teacher can have to help a student to become confident and I think – Yes, that's what I want to do so for us it's about nurture, care, education qualifications but also inspiration, finding new things and new directions.

　　主持人：AI时代已经到来，您认为面对未来，教育应该走向何方？

　　With the advent of AI, in your opinion, facing a future of uncertainty, where should education be headed?

　　Mr Matthew Brown：AI 的到来令人非常兴奋，因为AI的出现意味着有很多机会即将到来。我们不想培养像机器一样的学生，我们希望培养有能力解决问题的人类。人类使用科技来解决问题，但人类始终是主导者，机器不应主导。所以我们希望学生有机会一起合作解决难题，在我校的黑客马拉松活动中，学生们会聚在一起尝试利用科技解决各种新时代的问题。AI的到来会给我们带来很多新挑战，但也有很多机会，我们希望培养出有能力接受挑战并提出我们从未想过的新解决方案。

　　Well, this is very exciting, there are so many opportunities to come because of artificial intelligence. We do not want students to be like computers, we want students to become like humans who can solve the problems that only humans can solve. We use the computers to solve those problems, but we are in charge, the computer should not be in charge. So we want students to have opportunities to work together to solve difficult problems. Sometimes people talk about hackathon, where students will come together to try and solve different problems. So the world has many challenges, but also many opportunities and we want our students to be ready to work together to solve those problems and to come up with new solutions that we have never even thought of.

　　因此，学校对这些机会持开放态度，给学生机会一起解决问题，充分利用AI。我们不害怕,反而我们很兴奋，我们可以用它来创造一个更加美好的未来

　　For the school we want to be open to those opportunities to give students chances to solve problems together using computers using AI to its very best. We are not scared but we're excited that we can use this for a better future.