Quote

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Adora Svitak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Adora Svitak
Age: 27
Born: 1997
Born: October 15
Author
Orator
Writer
Evergreen State
Trust
Learning
Reality
Kids
Littles
Reciprocal
Little
Unfortunately
Different
Grown
Lack

More quotes by Adora Svitak

Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.
Adora Svitak
Image
If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.
Adora Svitak
Image
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
Adora Svitak
Image
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.
Adora Svitak
Image
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak
Image
In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
Adora Svitak
Image
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Adora Svitak
Image
CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
Adora Svitak
Image
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
Adora Svitak
Image
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.
Adora Svitak