CNN News:橄榄球运动员Derrick Brooks和他的特许学校

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不仅有结实的胳膊，还是坦帕湾球队中后卫球员。在佛罗里达大学上学时获得了联赛冠军。

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不仅驰骋在橄榄球场上，在教育界也是独占鳌头。我有幸不久前对他在佛罗里达坦帕市设立特许学校一事进行过访谈，采访中谈到他人生任务就是教育学生。

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?

其实有很多种不同的方式供运动员或者名人选择去回报社会，是什么让你选择建立学校呢?

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.

推动我开办特许学校的动力来自于孩子们对我的追随，我想通过自己影响他们。这样我们就可以扩大队伍，然而我也就可以有机会成为其中的一员，与学生们建立良好的关系，才有可能帮助下一代人的成长。

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

那什么更困难一些呢，是开办学校还是的冠军?

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

每个都具有挑战性，但是说实话，开办学校对我来说更困难一些。

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.

当你开始筹建学校的时候就有很多困难等着你去解决。就像一个简单应用程序的一部分，我们必须得到允许。我们把让孩子上大学提到了学术议程里。

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?

你对学生有着非常大的激励作用，我是指你在与坦帕湾队打的每一场比赛。所有224场比赛中你参加了221场，这会给你带来全勤奖么?

To say the least.

可以这样说。

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

我整个职业生涯的表现对他们来说具有模范性。

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

你每天都出现，如果你每天都参加工作的话你就会受奖赏。

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.

在我们的观众当中有很多学生告诉我们说想成为职业运动员，篮球运动员也好，或者棒球或者足球运动员。但是我们都知道只有一小部分，非常小的一些人才有机会成为职业运动员。

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

你会告诉他们什么呢。你怎样鼓励他们为自己准备后路。

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

我告诉那些学生成为一名医生拿奖金比成为职业运动员要容易得多。

That`s the reality.

这是事实。

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.

我不认同把教育当做是第二方案。那是另外一回事。运动同样需要知识，需要你掌握你所谓的第二方案。知识是你成为运动员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.

我认为接受教育掌握知识最重要的一点是，你可以利用它。对我来说，教育是生活中的一个重要角色。你可以成为任何你想成为的。无论是商业，还是运动行业，任何你所从事的行业，教育都可以使你通往成功的道路。