1.
What adults can learn from kids
2.
8 minute video
3.
Optimism – very important
4.
Addressing a big crowd form a stage
5.
Damaging influence of children
6.
To be childish – a positive rather than negative
7.
Children as inspirational figures
8.
Good orator
9.
Believe in possibility
10. The
burden of history – reluctance to act
11. Dream
first – the boundary of possibility
12. Adults
should learn from kids
13. Reciprocal
learning
14. Humour
– engages crowd – childish yet mature – great appeal
15. Very
clever – Knowledge and presentation
16. A
published author – through persistence and parental support
17. Creating
opportunities – not knocking them
18. Listen
and learn - increase expectations and improve outcomes
19. Ends
with a question and challenge – ‘Are you ready?’
20. Makes
adults questions themselves ‘problems should not be heirlooms’
The eight minute video is presented by an intelligent and
entertaining child called Adora Svitak. In it she questions her audience on
their attitudes and the general attitudes of adults towards children. She
points out that adults have created many crises in the world like ware and
imperialism and that some children have been inspirational like Ruby Bridges
who helped end segregation of coloured people in the United States and a child
called Charlie Simpson who raised £120,000 for Haiti on his bike. She
encouraged adults to copy the desirable traits of children and believe in
possibility and optimism. To let hope and the desire to succeed improve their
ability to achieve their goals. Adora believes that education should be a
two-way process with teacher and student learning with and from each other. She
emphasises the importance of support from family explaining that her desire to
be a published author was an achievement through her self-belief and the
encouragement of her parents. She endorses the notion of listening the learning
presentations ends with a plea that the problems created by adults should not
become the heirlooms of her generation and a question for the adults – ‘Are you
ready?’ – a question for them to ponder and take away with them.
Reference List
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/adora_svitak.html - Posted April 2010
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