“No matter your position or place in life.”

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn’t keep them from popping.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children.

So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’

Since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

Like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

History is made every day.

We should all be more aware of what’s going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

I would say that kids are great in many ways.

The traits the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age.

To show that you truly care, you listen.

Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

I wasn’t really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

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.

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player.

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with,

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.