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1、精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 1 / 19邹奇奇,演讲稿Now, what have kids done? Well, Anne Frank touched millions with her powerfulaccount of the Holocaust, Ruby Bridges helped end segregation in the United States, and, most recently, Charlie Simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for Haiti on his little
2、 bike. So, as you can see evidenced by such examples, age has absolutely nothing to do with it. The traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational
3、 thinking.Then again, whos to say that certain types of irrational thinking arent exactly what the world needs? Maybe youve had grand plans before, but stopped yourself, thinking: Thats impossible or that costs too much or that wont benefit me. For better or worse, we kids arent hampered as much whe
4、n it comes to thinking about reasons why not to do things. Kids can be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking, like my wish that 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 2 / 19no one went hungry or that everything were free kind of utopia. How many of you still dream like that and believe in
5、the possibilities?Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian ideals can be a burden because you know that if everything were free, that the food stocks would become depleted, and scarce and lead to chaos. On the other hand, we kids still dream about perfection. And thats a goo
6、d thing because in order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.In many ways, our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of possibility. For instance, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, my home state - yoohooWashington has a program called Kids Design Glass, and
7、kids draw their own ideas for glass art. Now, the resident artist said they got some of their best ideas through the program because kids dont think about the limitations of how hard it can be to blow glass into certain shapes. They just think of good ideas. Now, when you think of glass, 精品文档2016 全新
8、精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 3 / 19you might think of colorful Chihuly designs or maybe Italian vases, but kids challenge glass artists to go beyond that into the realm of broken-hearted snakes and bacon boys, who you can see has meat vision.Now, our inherent wisdom doesnt have to be insiders knowledge.
9、 Kids already do a lot of learning from adults, and we have a lot to share. I think that adults should start learning from kids. Now, I do most of my speaking in front of an education crowd, teachers and students, and I like this analogy. It shouldnt just be a teacher at thehead of the classroom tel
10、ling students do this, do that. The students should teach their teachers. Learning between grown ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.Now, if you dont trust someone, you place restrictions on them, ri
11、ght. If I doubt my older sisters ability to pay back the 10 percent interest I established on her last loan, Im going 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 4 / 19to withhold her ability to get more money from me until she pays it back. True story, by the way. Now, adults seem to have a prevalently res
12、trictive attitude towards kids from every dont do that, dont do this in the school handbook, to restrictions on school internet use. As history points out, regimesbecome oppressive when theyre fearful about keeping control. And, although adults may not be quite at the level of totalitarian regimes,
13、kids have no, or very little, say in making the rules, when really the attitude should be reciprocal, meaning that the adult population should learn and take into account the wishes of the younger population.Now, whats even worse than restriction is that adults often underestimate kidsabilities. We
14、love challenges, but when expectations are low, trust me, we will sink to them. My own parents had anything but low expectations for me and my sister. Okay, so they didnt tell us to become doctors or lawyers or 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 5 / 19anything like that, but my dad did read to us a
15、bout Aristotle and pioneer germ fighters when lots of other kids were hearing The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round. Well, we heard that one too, but Pioneer Germ Fighters totally rules.I loved to write from the age of four, and when I was six my mom bought me my own laptop equipped with Microsoft Word. Thank you Bill Gates and thank you Ma. I wrote over 300 short stories on that little laptop, and I wanted to get published. Instead of just scoffing at this heresy that a kid wanted to get published,
