At age seven, she typed out over 250,000 words -- poetry, short stories, observations about the world -- in a single year.
Svitak has since fashioned her beyond-her-years wordsmithing into an inspiring campaign for literacy speaking across the country to both adults and kids. She is author of Flying Fingers, a book on learning.
"A tiny literary giant."
Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America
http://www.ted.com/speakers/adora_svitak.html
This video shows how a pre-teen shares her views on how adults can learn from their kids of whatever age, and therefore this can strongly support the fact that adults can learn from teenagers.
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In the video below, a teenage girl courageously delivers a speech in front of many UN representatives. She came 5000 miles just to address the problems that exist in society. Her powerful 8 minute speech amazed the adults and invoked strong feelings in them.
During her speech, she mentioned issues related to poverty, global warming and pollution. She also boldly criticized adults for being ignorant and selfish. She repeatedly used the phrase "As a child.." to emphasize that adults are ignorant and not as observant as a child, implying that they are not doing much to save the world and that they should be ashamed of themselves because even a child knows about global issues and crises.
Thus, this has shown that adults CAN learn from teenagers and realize what they have been missing out on. There is still so much to learn from teenagers of our society, whether then or now.
