A British woman who won a $1 million prize after she was named the World's Best Teacher will use the cash to bring inspirational figures into UK schools.
一位英国女性在被评为世界最佳教师后获得了100万美元的奖金，她将用这笔钱奖励英国学校的师生。
Andria Zafirakou, a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution. "We are going to make a change," she said.＂I've started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools."
伦敦北部中学教师安德里亚·扎菲拉科说，她想带来一场课堂革命。她说：“我们要做出改变，我已经启动了一个项目来促进我们学校的艺术教学。”
The project results from the difficulties many schools have in getting artists of any sort - whether an up-and-coming local musician or a major movie star - into schools to work with and inspire children.
该项目产生的原因是，很多学校很难让任何类型的艺术家——无论是当地崭露头角的音乐家还是电影大明星——进入学校与孩子们合作并激励他们。
Zafirakou began the project at Alperton Community School, her place of work for the past twelve years. “I've seen those magic moments when children are talking to someone they are inspired by - their eyes are shining and their faces light up,” she said. “We need artists . more than ever in our schools."
扎菲拉科在艾伯顿社区学校启动这个项目，这是她过去12年工作的地方。她说：“我看到过那些神奇的时刻，当孩子们与他们受到激励的人交谈时——他们的眼睛和脸都会闪闪发光。我们比以往任何时候都更需要艺术家。”
Artist Michael Craig-Martin said: “Andria's brilliant project to bring artists from all fields into direct contact with children is particularly welcome at a time when the arts are being downgraded in schools." It was a mistake to see the arts as unnecessary, he added.
艺术家迈克尔·克雷格·马丁说：“在学校里艺术被忽略的时候，安德里亚让来自各个领域的艺术家与孩子们直接接触的出色项目尤其受欢迎。”他补充道，认为艺术没有必要是错误的。
Historian Sir Simon Schama is also a supporter of the project. He said that arts education in schools was not just an add-on. “It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and creativity depends on the young. What will remain of us when artificial intelligence takes over will be our creativity, and it is our creative spirit, our visionary sense of freshness,that has been our strength for centuries."
历史学家西蒙·沙马爵士也是该项目的支持者。他说，学校的艺术教育不仅仅是一个附加项目。“这是绝对必要的。未来取决于创造力，创造力取决于年轻人。当人工智能接管时，我们剩下的将是我们的创造力，而几个世纪以来，我们的创造力和富有远见的新鲜感一直是我们的力量。”
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