Adora Svitak

While watching TED talk with Adora Svitak, I realized many things that I've never thought about before. When I first began watching it I could not believe that Adora was just a kid. Her vocabulary was so advanced that most of the words she used I didn't know the definition of. One of the points she made was that a common assumption that adults make is that children and the word "childish" represent irresponsibility and irrational thinking. But why is irrational thinking such a bad thing? Aren't children supposed to have wild imaginations? Doesn't irrational thinking make things more interesting and fun? In my opinion there aren't enough dreamers and irrational thinkers in the world. Another good point that Adora made in the TED talk was that learning between adults and kids should be a two-way street. Adults should realize that children have opinions and voices too. We are the new generation after all, so why aren't our voices heard as much as adults? Since what we do today is setting the stage for the future generation, children and teenagers should have more of a say in what goes on in in the school systems and in our community.