Simon Squibb: The Education System is Failing us! This is Why We Need to Rethink School
Begin Again with Davina McCall
FlightStory
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Money definitely brings you happiness if you're already happy. |
| 0:02.8 | But I know a lot of people made a lot of money and they're unhappy. I just want people to understand what makes you happy is my mum kick me out at 15 years old just after my father had died. I was homeless in total for eight weeks. I remember a girl spitting at me in the face and saying, get a job. And I just remember thinking, like, why do people not understand what it's like? Because everybody listening is three steps away from being homeless. I do what I do now because I'm trying to help that 15 year old kid. I want my son to grow up in a world where we're kind to each other. I get very upset about the education system. I see adults asking kids this question every single day. What do you want to do when you grow up? The first question we should ever ask our kids is what problem you'd like to solve when you grow up. Love sometimes is just someone believing in you. It's not possible |
| 0:41.2 | to be self-made. Anyone that's been successful had someone believe in them. And so I think there's |
| 0:46.5 | not enough said about how powerful a successful relationship can be. There was about six months |
| 0:51.7 | in our marriage where I didn't support her and it almost |
| 0:54.4 | broke us. How did you see that it was going wrong and how did you turn that around? |
| 0:59.9 | You need to have something to get you up every day to make you want to fight for your dream. |
| 1:03.7 | If somebody's watching or listening, how would they figure out what their purpose is? |
| 1:08.0 | First of all. |
| 1:09.4 | Simon Squib, I'm going to try not to frighten you with how much I adore you during this |
| 1:15.4 | interview. |
| 1:16.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:17.6 | I love what you do and I love your soul and I love how you want to make people feel empowered. |
| 1:30.2 | And that means a lot. |
| 1:32.2 | You have a good. |
| 1:33.6 | I feel sometimes a lot of hate, so it's actually quite nice to hear some love, to be honest. |
| 1:37.6 | Thank you for saying that. |
| 1:38.6 | That means a lot to me. |
| 1:39.8 | And it's, when you say I feel hate sometimes,'m like what um because everyone that i've spoken to |
| 1:48.8 | and i've gone to guess who i'm into me i'm literally been flexing around interviewing you i'm so |
| 1:52.4 | excited generally to my kids friends of my kids and they're all oh my god so this morning i called called my daughter in Australia. She's in Sydney. And she's dyslexic. |
| 2:08.1 | Suffered judgment for that through her whole school life, was bullied. She so identifies with you on every level. And because of you, she has started |
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