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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

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Adora Svitak
Age: 27
Born: 1997
Born: October 15
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By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
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Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
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None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
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Enthusiasm just creates bubbles it doesn't keep them from popping.
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My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
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Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
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I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
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We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.
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