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.
ADORA SVITAKI taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.
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Due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
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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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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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And to teach you something about what we know.
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to.
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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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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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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement.
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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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History is made every day.
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A lot of negative words adults call the young.
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And ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.
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We’re ignorant of our past.
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