TED Talk 2010: Adora Svitak – Kids Eye View

She’s a precocious learner, TED speaker, published author and teacher of other kids. Twelve-year-old Adora Svitak talks for a few minutes about how she ended up at TED, what interests her in technology, and why she likes Twitter.

During her time on the stage at TED, Adora advocated a sort of “Kid’s Rights” sentiment, arguing that adults should take young people more seriously and be more interested in learning from kids to foster a more reciprocal relationship between age groups. She says that because kids tend to be less constrained by social norms than adults as we get older, young people can often offer a unique and perhaps more creative, out-of-the-box approach to problems.

Quotes from Adora’s TED Talk

“Age has nothing to do with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.”

“The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult but a better adult than you’ve been.”

“The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas.”

“You need to create opportunities for children, trust them and expect more. kids need opportunities lead/succeed.”

“For better or worse, we kids aren’t hampered by reasons not to do things.”

“We cannot look ahead negatively we need a new generation of leaders to lead and take us in a new direction.”

“When expectations are low, trust me, we will sink to them.”

Adora Svitak (12), TED, 13 February, 2010

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