My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. ↗
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. ↗
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. ↗
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. ↗
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. ↗