2019-07-01_Reader_s_Digest_UK

JULY 2019 • 67

I’d stop the production of weapons.
I think we have enough. We have so
many nuclear weapons, so many
guns and knives. I think we should
just call it a day and make do with
what we’ve got. We have more than
enough to blow ourselves up with.

I’d make our education system
more like that of Finland. It’s a very
unusual system over there. You go
to school when you are seven and
you call your teacher by their
first name. Apart from
maths, reading and writing,
you choose the subjects
you want to learn.
I’d also use modern
digital and media technology
in the education process.
When I was at school we
learned about
geography through
boring books and
black and white
photographs.
I would make
an action movie,
with baddies
trying to take
over the world’s
weapons or
something like
that, and in the
process of being
excited by the action
movie, you would
learn all about
geography. I would

also teach things such as self-esteem

and confidence.

The people I know who have

been to our famous schools such

as Eton and Harrow were told

implicitly through the teaching,

“You are among the elite”.

I think it would be great if everyone

was taught that. I would also teach

general life skills, like how wire a

plug, how to fill out a tax form and

I’d also teach manners!

I’d get scientists to work on a cure

for baldness. We follically-

challenged people, live with it

daily. We need to divert the

resources of our scientific

community to finding that

cure very, very quickly.

I would genetically

clone myself

so the genetic

clones could be

out doing shows,

writing books, doing

interviews—

things like that.

And I’d be home

watching Netflix. n

As told to

Nicola Venning

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