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If I ruled the world, I would create a society that would revere creativity at all levels. Not just children experimenting at school but right the way through. Creativity should be nurtured, admired and encouraged throughout the education system and into life. We are born into the world to improve it.
What always depresses and surprises me is that if you go to schools anywhere in the world and see children aged up to 14, they are interested and engaged in things, are unafraid to be creative, they have wonderful imaginations, and then, certainly in England, the system smacks it out of them. When I say the system, I don’t just mean schools, I think it’s society. It’s probably their parents saying being a designer or being creative is not what life is about, you have got to pass exams, go to university and get a sensible job. And society in the form of the Department of Education that doesn’t think that design and technology or being creative is important, so it’s not part of the English Baccalaureate.
There is then, in this country, the cultural prejudice against engineering and manufacturing. You have only to read Charles Dickens to see his views of industrialists. If you think of Danny Boyle’s 2012 Olympic Ceremony, it opened with the beautiful green fields of England, then there were these chimneys put up everywhere, these vast Satanic Mills with smoke, these women with huge hammers toiling away and then Isambard Kingdom Brunel comes in looking a bit lost, in his top coat. Boyle’s theme was definitely that England was wrecked.
What always depresses and surprises me is that if you go to schools anywhere in the world and see children aged up to 14, they are interested and engaged in things, are unafraid to be creative, they have wonderful imaginations, and then, certainly in England, the system smacks it out of them. When I say the system, I don’t just mean schools, I think it’s society. It’s probably their parents saying being a designer or being creative is not what life is about, you have got to pass exams, go to university and get a sensible job. And society in the form of the Department of Education that doesn’t think that design and technology or being creative is important, so it’s not part of the English Baccalaureate.
There is then, in this country, the cultural prejudice against engineering and manufacturing. You have only to read Charles Dickens to see his views of industrialists. If you think of Danny Boyle’s 2012 Olympic Ceremony, it opened with the beautiful green fields of England, then there were these chimneys put up everywhere, these vast Satanic Mills with smoke, these women with huge hammers toiling away and then Isambard Kingdom Brunel comes in looking a bit lost, in his top coat. Boyle’s theme was definitely that England was wrecked.
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"If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick (based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers). In the context of the stage musical, the song is sung by Samuel Pickwick, when he is mistaken for an election candidate and called on by the crowd to give his manifesto. Ornadel and Bricusse received the 1963 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[1]
The song is usually associated with Sir Harry Secombe, who got the song to No 18 in the UK charts in 1963. Tony Bennett originally recorded the song in 1965, and had a number 34 hit with it on the U.S. pop singles charts. With Celine Dion, he returned to the song on his Grammy-winning 2006 album Duets: An American Classic. It has been performed by other singers, notably Robert Goulet, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Tom Jones and Regina Belle.
Andy Hallett, the actor best known for playing the part of Lorne ('The Host') in the television series Angel, sang the song in that series' final episode. The politician-spoofing BBC panel show If I Ruled the World was named after the song.
This song was featured in Spring/Summer 2009 on the Vodafone adverts in the UK.
Jamie Cullum also recorded a version for his album The Pursuit, and performed it at his special performance at the Late Night Prom, number Prom 55, of The Proms in London, with The Heritage Ensemble, on Thursday 26 August 2010 between 22:15 and 13.45. As shown on BBC televisions' BBC Four on the following night.[2]
"If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick (based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers). In the context of the stage musical, the song is sung by Samuel Pickwick, when he is mistaken for an election candidate and called on by the crowd to give his manifesto. Ornadel and Bricusse received the 1963 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[1]
The song is usually associated with Sir Harry Secombe, who got the song to No 18 in the UK charts in 1963. Tony Bennett originally recorded the song in 1965, and had a number 34 hit with it on the U.S. pop singles charts. With Celine Dion, he returned to the song on his Grammy-winning 2006 album Duets: An American Classic. It has been performed by other singers, notably Robert Goulet, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Tom Jones and Regina Belle.
Andy Hallett, the actor best known for playing the part of Lorne ('The Host') in the television series Angel, sang the song in that series' final episode. The politician-spoofing BBC panel show If I Ruled the World was named after the song.
This song was featured in Spring/Summer 2009 on the Vodafone adverts in the UK.
Jamie Cullum also recorded a version for his album The Pursuit, and performed it at his special performance at the Late Night Prom, number Prom 55, of The Proms in London, with The Heritage Ensemble, on Thursday 26 August 2010 between 22:15 and 13.45. As shown on BBC televisions' BBC Four on the following night.[2]
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