Adora Svitak (eleven years old lecturer) talks about how
children have a special power on the people in difference to adults and that
they could bring more inspiring ideas to the world and benefits than adults
have had over the years with their wars and crisis. She talks about how
irrationality, often criticized on children, is may be necessary as an utopia,
an about believing in the possibilities of dreams. She talks how by kids just
thinking big and with no limitations on the possibilities of their dreams they
prove getting BIG results, as an example she gives of a workshop on glass
sculpture with fabulous results. So as kids have this ability not to restrain
the possibilities they can actually teach their teachers for doing greater
projects in education. She says that the only problem seems to be the “trust”.
Adults don’t trust children. They set rules and never let the children
participate in this process. Adora even points out her experience writing
articles and stories in the computer and getting rejection when trying to get
them published by even children books publishing houses. The worst part, she
says is that children get to turn into adults. The point she says, is not
becoming children again, but becoming better adults. She asks adults to trust
children more and to take children more into consideration for decision taking
into the education for tomorrow.
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