Sir Ken Robinson

We all do.

We all have bodies, don't we?

Did I miss a meeting?

I mean, I think... Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up.

And then we focus on their heads, and slightly to one side.

If you were to visit education as an alien and say, what's it for, public education?

I think you'd have to conclude, if you look at the output, you know, who really succeeds by this?

Who does everything they should?

Who gets all the brownie points?

You know, who are the winners?

I think you'd have to conclude the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors.

Isn't it?

They're the people who come out the top.

And I used to be one.

So there, you know.

And I like university professors, but, you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high watermark of all human achievement.

They're just a form of life.

You know, another form of life.

But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them.

There's something curious about professors.