You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow
ADORA SVITAKThe challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
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And to teach you something about what we know.
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas.
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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century.
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I realise I’m still a child, though I do feel older.
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Success on the front of women’s rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances.
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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.
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We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification.
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to.
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The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors’ pushup bras?
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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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We often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
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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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Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.
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CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement.
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And when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.
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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love.
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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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Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
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History is made every day.
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If school is preparation for the real world.
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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 taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.
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Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn’t blow their own horn.
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If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
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