TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

为什么我们要培养珍贵的普通人？

欧阳艳琴

我们总是被“学霸”的故事吸引，而那些成绩普通，甚至被标签为“学渣”的孩子，却常常被忽略。对很多打工子弟来说，所谓“学渣”并不稀奇，但这不代表他们没有潜力，也不意味着他们没有力量。欧阳艳琴创办的“实务学堂”，正是为了这样一群人而存在——培养那些看起来平凡，却无比珍贵的普通人。因为，正是这些普通人，才是社会最真实、最坚实的底色。

欧阳艳琴自己也曾是一个“差生”。她是留守儿童，高中数学、化学考过3分。但她在高三最后一个月拼尽全力，成为年级第一。复读一年后，勉强考入重点大学，彻底改变了命运。在创立实务学堂前，她曾是《财新》的调查记者，用文字记录真实社会。

2015年，她创办了“科蚪”——一个专为流动儿童提供学习空间的小型社区项目。几年后，它成长为“实务学堂”，一个面向普通青年的全日制非学历职业教育项目。这个学堂致力于解决打工子弟未来出路的问题，试图通过清晰的教学体系与扎实的教育内容，为他们提供真正的选择和可能。

Why do we need precious ordinary people?

Yanqin Ouyang

We hear a lot about the straight-A students—but what about the kids who struggle, the so-called “underachievers”? For many children from migrant worker families, this label is all too common. But being called a “poor student” doesn’t mean they lack value or strength. Yanqin Ouyang’s Shíwù School exists to serve precisely these young people—to nurture what she calls “precious ordinary people.” Because in truth, it’s the ordinary people who form the true foundation of any society.

Yanqin knows this firsthand. She was a left-behind child, and a student who once scored just 3 points in both math and chemistry. But in her final month of high school, she pushed herself to the top of her class. After a year of retaking exams, she was admitted to a top university by the narrowest of margins—and it changed her life. Before founding Shíwù School, she worked as an investigative journalist at Caixin, a leading publication in China.

In 2015, she started Kedou, which was initially just a small after-school space for migrant children. It later grew into what is now Shíwù School—a full-time, non-degree vocational education project. The school’s focus is to help working-class youth find a meaningful path forward, offering a clear teaching framework and solid curriculum, so that even those outside the mainstream education system can have real opportunities.