Anyway, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles, and I just want to say a word about the . Actually, . I've got two kids; he's 21 now, my daughter's 16. He didn't want to come to Los Angeles. , but in England. This was , Sarah. He'd known her .
Mind you, they'd had their fourth anniversary, because it's a long time when you're 16. .
He said, "I'll never like Sarah."
And , frankly --
because .
But when you move to America and you : . Every one. Doesn't matter . You'd think it would be , but it isn't.
At the top are , then the humanities.
At the are the arts. .
And in pretty much , too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. .
There isn't . Why? Why not? . I think math is very important, but . if they're allowed to, we all do. , don't we? Did I miss a meeting?
Truthfully, what happens is, , we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then . 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 , if you look at the , who really by this, who does everything they should, who gets all the brownie points, who are the -- I think you'd have to conclude the whole of public education is to . Isn't it? They're the people who come out the top. And I used to be one, so there.
And , but, you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all . They're just a form of life. Another form of life. But they're . And I say this : there's something . In my experience -- not all of them, but typically -- . 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 .
Don't they?
It's a way of .
If you want real of out-of-body experiences, by the way, get yourself along to a residential of senior academics and pop into the discotheque on the final night.
And there, you will see it. writhing uncontrollably, .
Waiting until it ends, .