Simon Squibb
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Sort of thing, right?
And I told the teacher, look, please don't ask that question.
Ask kids what problem you'd like to solve when you grow up.
Have a bit of fun with it.
You know, let kids have an imagination.
We don't even know what job's going to exist.
My son's eight, right?
In 15 years time, lawyers probably won't even exist.
I would argue robots and AI will be doing all the surgeries.
So, you know, like why are we trapping minds into this job mindset?
And that's the problem with school for me.
It teaches you, okay, you've got a D in this subject, you need to do more of it.
I'm like, fuck that.
If you're not good at that subject, do the thing you've got an A in, more of it.
What does your son say his dream is now then?
So I ask him every week for fun.
He says he hasn't decided yet, but I've got him thinking about it.
You know, like millions of other people, now I've got them thinking about it.
And I think for my son, for example, I say, what problem would you like to solve?
We just watched a thing with David Attenborough, and he said that we've got the sixth extinction coming our way.