Since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
ADORA SVITAKWe’re ignorant of our past.
More Adora Svitak Quotes
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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love.
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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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Then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion.
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children.
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It is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
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And when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.
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None of my friends don’t have Facebook accounts.
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Prom has all the elements of a popular story.
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If school is preparation for the real world.
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I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.
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Like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
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I would say that kids are great in many ways.
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But also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
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Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something.
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Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement.
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The traits the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age.
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I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.
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I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.
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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.
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History is made every day.
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It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.
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Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
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It seems we’re not only uninformed about our present.
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