My past two post were to short to be even sweet. Twitter has been getting to me..
Here is a speech I wrote for a speech contest which I, surprise surprise, lost.
The topic was bout how the youth change the world or some random crap like that, I swear the topics get stupider and stupider each year
Here is a speech I wrote for a speech contest which I, surprise surprise, lost.
The topic was bout how the youth change the world or some random crap like that, I swear the topics get stupider and stupider each year
Kids are naïve, they lack real-life experience, and they have not completed their education. And that is exactly why they are the movers and shakers of the world.
I am the first one to admit that I am naïve. And I am the first one to state that being naïve is not a bad thing.
The word naïve has a very negative connotation. Being naive is something bad.
Why is being pure and innocent a bad thing?
Believing that World Peace is possible, that global problems can be solved with words, that it is possible for everyone on the planet to work together.
These are thoughts usually labeled as naïve thing.
Not possible
The naïve are dreamers, who believe that anything is possible.
Is that a bad thing?
I ask you this: how can someone solve a problem that they believe the solution to be unreachable?
Answer is: they can’t.
How many people, two years ago, said that it is impossible for the Tunisian or Egyptian people to liberate themselves? And that it is naïve to think that goal can be reached?
Yet here we are in 2011 with both of those countries free because the younger generation believed.
It is a common misconception that while the younger generations are energy filled bottle rockets, they are somewhat obsolete when it comes to facing reality.
“They lack experience, they have not passed through as many events as us”. Can be heard from adults when talking about us kids.
Yet what those adults fail to realize that sometimes having experience is more detrimental than not having any.
Kids believe the world to be filled with possibilities and no boundaries.
Yet adults believe the opposite: the world has limits and walls.
Now how did this happen?
As one passes through more of life, they will be faced with difficulties and problems. And at this point they are opened to two choices: fight and try to perceiver or to give up and move on.
Every time someone is not able to succeed in something, they create a limit.
And as life goes on, and as experiences add, more and more of these limits are created. Creating walls around all those possibilities.
Now let me make this very clear: these limits do not exist
They are only in the mind of the beholder.
Two boys wanted to raise money for Breast Cancer research. Their goal was 1000 US dollars. Their teacher told them that that amount would be impossible for them to reach. That there was a limit to how much they are able to collect.
These two boys raised over 15 000 dollars.
They did not see the imaginary limit that was embedded in their teachers mind.
Though we must applaud the teacher, the fact he went through all those years of education and still ha an imagination. That is something truly amazing.
Schools kill creativity
Let it be known that these are not my word, but the words of Sir Ken Robinson.
A simple social experiment was conducted:
Ask people of different ages and grade levels to list the ways you can use a paper clip.
There was a clear difference between the lists. As the ages went up the list sizes went down.
An adult sees a paper clip as, well, an ever day paper clip.
A child sees it as many different things: it could be 100 meters tall and made out of rubber, or it could be the size of an ant.
Adults do not have the creativity needed to solve todays issues
During 1361, about 700 years ago, a wall was built in Prague; it was called the hunger wall.
Its purpose was to provide the poor with a lively hood after the appearance of a widespread famine.
In 2010, Obama suggested a bill that would create $50 bill worth of new roads, buildings, train stations etc in order to provide people with jobs after the economic meltdown.
700 years and adults are still coming up with the same ideas!
What the world needs is creative ideas, innovative thinking, looking past limits, thinking outside the box, and thinking of the “impossible” possibilities.
What the world needs is to listen to the people who can change it, the people who can shake it. The world needs to start listening to its youngest generation.
The world needs to start listening to us.
Thank you.
