Talk with David Goodhart discussing the status of work outside the  knowledge economy & reviving the status of work by heart &  hand.
Author and journalist David  Goodhart discussed and presented the ideas from his latest book ‘Head,  Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century’.
In this timely and original  analysis, David Goodhart divides human aptitudes into three: Head  (cognitive), Hand (manual and craft) and Heart (caring, emotional). It’s  common sense that a good society needs to recognise the value of all  three, but in recent decades they have got badly out of kilter.  Cognitive ability has become the gold standard of human esteem. The  cognitive class now shapes society largely in its own interests, by  prioritising the knowledge economy, ever-expanding higher education and  shaping the very idea of a successful life.
Head, Hand, Heart tells the story of the cognitive takeover that has gathered pace over  the past forty years. As recently as the 1970s most people left school  without qualifications, but now 40 per cent of all jobs are  graduate-only. A good society must re-imagine the meaning of skilled  work, so that people who work with their hands and hearts are valued.
David Goodhart is the founding  editor of Prospect magazine and one of the most distinctive voices on  politics today. He is currently head of the Demography Unit at the think  tank Policy Exchange, and was previously director of the centre-left  think tank Demos.

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