National treasure Stephen Fry gets a round of applause on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with cinch after this rousing speech on the lack of respect that some people in society get 😡
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Makes you so angry at the division in the world where people like that are paid nothing and get almost no respect when I was first went to school seven a proper school as you might say it rapidly became apparent to me that I was bad at everything that all the other
Children were good at um I I couldn’t catch a ball or run in a straight line and collide with a tree or trip over my own feet I couldn’t swim uh I couldn’t sing or play an instrument I couldn’t draw or paint and I really felt inadequate um but there was an occasion
Which sort of sparked off a bit of confidence was was this music teacher was writing on the board she wrote the word Orchestra in big capital letters so she was going to give us a lesson about the elements of the orchestra and I shouted out cart horse um and she said
What I know you exactly and I and and she said how did you know that I said well I could just see it and uh she s of gave me a frowning look that I thought was disappointing disappointment but in fact she asked me to stay behind and she
Sort of talked to me about things and then around that time it started Latin at school and I loved it I because unlike other boys who who saw it as a terrible chore to understand I thought it was like a game like a code game right so that you could substitute words
One word for another and and it just became interesting so um they they then said would I like to learn ancient Greek and I said oh yes and it’s even more of a code because they got different letters so I learned to write my name in in with Greek characters and I learned
The Greek alphabet of course and then started to learn the language and loved it uh and I like Susie dent on countdown I just love the atmology the origin of words and and uh so this was perfect in Greek because the Greek book that I was
Given because I was the only one doing Greek was it would have a new noun or verb like let’s say gramine to write and it would say you can easily remember the meaning of gramming because of words like grammar and tellr which is a a piece of writing from a distance which
Is what tell is a remote um and graphane and you know and and all these different so gramine to read rather than graphane to write and phonos sound as in telephone and I remember turning a page and it had a verb thadz and and it said you can easily remember this by thinking
Of the English word thge and I remember looking down and thinking I quite like words and things but thge and it turns out thur is an English word it just means a worker of Wonders a worker of Miracles th the urge is Urus is the work
You know and um so but and of course I haven’t forgotten it but that set me on the path to believing there was something I could do and and this was a boarding school and and at night I would read stories um you know I had a torch
Under the bed and I was the the reader the dormet reader and and I would sometimes make up stories you need make up ghost stories is love and so despite being appalling at games dis practic really I just really couldn’t do anything climb a rope I mean God the
Sight of well we’re all diss something yes exactly that’s the point isn’t it so you find you don’t know what you’re good at find out what you diss at and what’s left after all the disses is that exactly and I this is what I say if I do
Sometimes go to schools and things and uh um and they’ll say well you know all these things I said um uh what do what do you like then and he told said football and I said well who’s which which team and he told me his team and I
Said so you can name all the team and of course he could I said but you couldn’t name any other teams could you cuz you like your team and he went through the whole Premier team naming every single team and their manager and where they’ve been before and I said you see your
Brain is that’s I couldn’t catch up with you there you’ve got an amazing brain and you have to remind people that taxi drivers in London is a really good example because you know that the knowledge which is what London black cab drivers have to it’s their exam they
Pass where they have to have a meeting and the and their examiner says take me from you know the South Kensington tube entrance to uh upper Street in Islington and they they have to recite to The Examiner turn left at there right at the lights comply with lights center lane
Pass and then name the buildings they’re passing in because if they’re important buildings like hotels and clubs and things they should know them anyway it’s it’s an astounding piece of uh huge amount of knowledge that these people and a lot of them and I I talk to them
Um um a lot of them left school very early because they were told they didn’t have an academic brain yeah and the discovery that their brain could master all this information famously more than a lawyer has to learn to pass a law degree um all that information in their
Brain they suddenly realized that they weren’t the dances that they were told they were and I I I’m next week going to um uh Paris for a night on taking the train but uh I’m hosting the global teacher awards at uh at the UNESCO building in Paris which is the thing
I’ve done before and and it is astounding these they’re from all over the world Bangladesh Peru London and all these teachers that are nominated I mean the ones in the long list are amazing enough but then when you get to the short list the work they do the
Inspiration they are they you know and you just makes you so angry at the division in the world where people like that are paid nothing and get almost no respect as this you know there are these Awards but they won make the front pages in the newspapers let’s be honest but these
People are more charismatic and dedicated and useful exactly than almost anybody you’re likely to meet in your life and they pass that message to their children they make their children feel capable and and it’s so important should we just give Stephen a round of applause control room Round of Applause
The greatest honor this show can bestow upon a guest oh
28 Comments
I met Stephen Fry in Hatchards Piccadilly years ago, I have a NE accent and he was so quick, he said "you are not from round here are you"!! he was a lovely man, huge and gave off a wonderful energy!!
Interesting his talk of Taxi Drivers. I'm sure The amount a taxi driver has to absorb to gain the Knowledge,would frighten most of us
Not a fan of Chris Evans but LOVE Stephen Fry. Amazing human being.
I love Stephen Fry …He seems like he'd be the nicest guy ever to just spend time with
National treasure?
💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤
With people like S Fry in the World there is always hope.
Another teacher here who worked to make Chemistry interesting and accessible to his students … many thanks, Stephen.
Amazing guy!
Steven Fry = Pompous and annoying.
Pair of ⚓s. ❤x
Stephen Fry is absolute fraud and an establishment schill. The worst of the absolute worst.
National treasure ?
They let this creep into school's . Tv companies let all sorts get true. Twill get out what this fraud has done .
He should stand up for those good teachers who have been cancelled because they had enough integrity to challenge the fashionable but damaging ideologies that the system are being pushed onto young minds (and bodies).
LOVE AND LIGHT TO MR FRY!!!❤😊
its stephen fry letting us all know how clever he is (again)
Oh I thought He was going to talk about the Palestinians. Silly me.🍉🍉🍉🍉
Love this man, just read mythos and Heroes recommended
Stephen Fry is a toff
2:25 – Jester: 'I cast thaumaturgy and blow Chris Evans stupid cap off'
Anotjer emotional "man"
Stephen Fry is a hypocrite. He’s a massive supporter of Israel and its genocide
Yeah, yeah, but at the end of the day, they invite a famous actor/celebrity to talk about the teachers, give them awards, etc. and not teachers themselves. You can praise the working class all you want, as long as it doesn't disrupt the chain of exploitation. Praising and being warm and familiar with slaves was practiced even in Rome.
Feudalism is not a problem of culture, it's a problem of the law, which benefits exploiters, usurers, liars, and clowns which tell you funny stories to make you feel good about the whole thing.
Waliking encyclopaedia MrFry, enjoy your show and talk show very much.
Respect is earned not own
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Genocide lover
This is also why we should drop standardised learning and follow countries such as Finland. I think their approach to teaching is much more progressive and inclusive.