Reflective Essay "What adults can learn from kids?"

 Hi, my name is Maya Lee, and today I want to share about "What adults can learn from kids?" A speech by Adora Svitak.


 Adora Svitak is a child prodigy who first published books at the age of 6. Also, she did some many speeches. She is a teacher, speaker, writer, and awesome blogger! But this is the only part of it, because she has many talents. But today, I'm writing an assignment about her TED(Technology Entertainment Design)speech. First of all, I was pretty shocked when I watched her speech. She used some hard vocabularies, and nice topic. But one thing that shocked me even more is--her age. She was only 12 when she did the speech. As you all know, TED is where professionals of professionals talk about their career/life. So it'll be very hard to imagine that a 12 year old girl is standing in the big stage with adults audiences. I think that the adults never thought that, one day a child would go up on the stage, and make a speech about themselves.

 < Adora Svitak TED speech>

 As you can see on this video, she talked about the "childishness" and how the adults should be like children. She compared the child, and the adults, and how they think differently. Adora advocated a sort of "Kid's RIght's" sentiment, arguing that adults should take young people more seriously and more interested in learning from kids. She says that because kids tend to be less constrained by social norms than adults as we get older, young people can often offer a unique and perhaps more creative life.

 I agree with Adora. Most of my friends talk like adults, dress like adults, and think like adults. It's kind of annoying talking to them. They don't understand what I'm saying, and as a matter of fact, I can't understand what they are saying.

 Also, adults want everything to be perfect. They want everything to be good to them. They want better and better and better. Isn't that the reason why they had wars? Isn't that why the adults think only about themselves?

 Space is my dream, and I always think about Space. One day, I was thinking about the aliens of Mars. When I asked my friends for their opinions. But all they said was-- "There are no aliens. If you want to go to NASA, think more scientifically!"

  I was surprised then, but now I think that people's mind should be independent like a child. A child thinks freely like a wide open space, but grown-ups thinks only in a notion. So, I think that's a problem that we are having today.

 We children is the leader of tomorrow. We are the one who will lead the future. But if we learn some of those from the adults, this world will never be in peace. So, grown-ups should learn these from the children, and lead this world until our generation comes.