Sir Ken Robinson

In my experience, not all of them, but typically, they live in their heads.

They live up there, and slightly to one side.

They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way.

They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads.

You know, it's... Don't they?

It's a way of getting their head to meetings.

If you want real evidence of out-of-body experiences, by the way, get yourself along to a residential conference for senior academics and pop into the discotheque on the final night.

And there you will see it, grown men and women writhing uncontrollably

Off the beat.

Wait until it ends so they can go home and write a paper about it.

Now, our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability.

And there's a reason.

The whole system was invented around the world.

There were no public systems of education really before the 19th century.

They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism.

So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas.

Number one,

that the most useful subjects for work are at the top.

So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked, on the ground you would never get a job doing that.

Is that right?