https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=164
We are caught up in a revlolution, and I believe this is a full on, literal, no non-sense, not metaphorical revolution. A revolution in which many of the things we think are obvious and that we take for granted are not true; and will no longer be true, even if they're true right now.
https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=196
Part of the changes that we're facing now have no historical precident. You really can't look back to any time in history and say "well it's like that all over again". I don't think it is, I think there are forces at work now for which nobody really is properly prepared.
https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=215
We have to think differently about our own abilities, about our human abilities, about human resources; and creativity, to me, is the major theme that we need to address.
https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=377
Paul McCartney, or Paul as I call him, was telling me as we were chilling: I asked him how he got on at music at school, did he enjoy music at school. He said he hated it! He hated music at shool. He said nobody at school thought he had any musical tallent at all. Paul McCartney. Hi music teacher never spotted anything unusual about Paul McCartney's musical abilities. One of the other students in the same music class, with him, was George Harrison (of The Beatles) and the music teacher didn't spot that either. So this one music teacher had half The Beatles in his class and he missed it.
Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo in America was not allowed in the school choir - no I'm sorry - in the glee club at school. They said he would ruin their sound. Elvis. Well we all know what heights the glee club when on to. Once they'd managed to keep elvis out.
John Cleese from Monty Python ... said that he went from Kindergarten to Cambridge and nobody every thought he had a sense of humour. He does doesn't he?
... some of the most creative people in the world didn't realise they were, during the course of being educated.
https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=556
I know all kinds of people who have no real sense of what they are truely capable of achieving.
https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=1025
... the problems of social exclusion, of drop-out rates, of disaffection, of the use of chemicals to keep people ballanced. I don't want to bring you down here, you know, but the rate of suicides amoung young people has increased throughout this generation, actually since the 1960s. You know some people are turning off, some people are just checking out; because, I believe, in part because they don't find a sense of purpose and meaning. They find their communities offen to be astranging; and they don't in many cases find education the liberation it is intended to be.
Now I'm just saying this because I think the crisis of human resources is actual, real and in every sense of the word too expensive to tolerate.
https://youtu.be/rKS_HhdSJ_4?t=1495
Once of the ways our education system is out of date is it's premised on a linear assumption of social planning. One that was never true by the way, it's a factory model.
