Ted - Adora Svitak

This talk is by Adora Svitak, a twelve-year-old child from America.

I enjoyed Adora Svitak's talk on 'what adults can learn from children' as it was in my opinion accurate, as well as being extremely inspiring. I agree completely with Adora when she rightly states that children should deserve higher expectations, because children work as hard as they are expected to. I know this first hand, because when I was younger a teacher told me I wouldn't be able to get above a C grade at the most, therefore I studied only a small amount because I was told I wasn't capable of doing any better. Even though expectations of children should increase, sometimes adults' expectations can be too high resulting in children feeling under pressure regarding their academic or even life achievements.
I believe that society frowns upon childishness, as being called childish is an insult to most people. As Adora says being called childish or childish thinking isn’t a bad thing, because children are creative, optimistic and have dreams. Dreams are like goals, some are extreme, but others for example; making the world a safe place for everyone, is something to work towards as a way to make the world a better place, for future generations.