I realise I’m still a child, though I do feel older.
ADORA SVITAKI wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.
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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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You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow
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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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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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The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.
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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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Where no girl is denied access to education, for instance.
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Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement.
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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 then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to.
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We’re ignorant of our past.
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Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something.
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Due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
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