The label "childish" is an irrational stereotype, because adults have done stupid things, and kids have done things that have had huge impacts on the world. Also, childlike irrationality is actually something that the world today needs, rather than more excuses about why people shouldn't do things or don't have time. A knowledge of past failures can be a burden on adults, and they accept as fact that Utopian/ideal things are impossible.In order to make these things a reality, you first have to believe that they can happen.Kids don't start out with the filter of what is "possible" then base their goals off of that, they start out with their goals, then see how they can acchieve them despite "impossibility." Kids have a lot to share with adults. Children already learn a lot from adults, but adults need to start learning from kids. A lot of this is based on trust. Adults have a restrictive attitude towards kids because they don't trust them. Adults also often underestimate kids' abilities.
The speaker organizes her presentation like a paper. She starts out with an overview of what she's talking about, makes several points and gives examples, and wraps up her ideas at the end. Also, her jokes keep the audience engaged in her talk. Her language is eloquent, but easily comprehensible.
Her presentation type is somewhere between formal and informal. She uses vocabulary like a professor, and she makes her points like a formal paper, but she also talks to the audience as if she were having a conversation, not giving a speech. Also, she uses her PowerPoint only as a visual aid for a few of her points, and definitely not a guiding force in her talk.
The goal should be not to raise kids just like adults, but to raise kids that are better than the current adult generation. It is imperative to create opportunities for children so that they can grow up to fill those opportunities (and then some.) I personally feel that I should have the opportunity to teach my teachers as well as learning from them. I also feel that in some areas I am capable of handling more responsibility than is being given to me. In education, it shouldn't just be a teacher at the head of the class giving directions; students should teach their teachers, too. In other words, learning between grownups and kids should be reciprocal. Adults must lend an ear to kids today because they are the leaders of tomorrow. The world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.
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