“We really live in two worlds, don’t we? There’s a world that exists whether or not you exist, a world that came into being before you did. It was here before you got here. It will be here well long after you are gone. It’s the world of other people, events, other circumstances. Our education systems are pretty obsessed with that world.

But there’s another world that exists only because you exist. It’s the world of your own private consciousness, the world that came into being when you did, the world, as somebody once said, where there’s only one set of footprints, a world of your private passions, your motivations, your aspirations, your hopes, and your talents.

And I believe the future of the world around us, so far as we’re concerned, depends on understanding much more about the world within us.” Sir Ken Robinson