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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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The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
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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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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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Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
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Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.
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Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
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With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
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We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.
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The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
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I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.
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I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible.'
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Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
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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 point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.
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In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
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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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