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  A comment on Talk: Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

  Aug 4 2010: Isn´t it strange that everybody agrees that adults should listen to children, yet the talk is held by a child behaving exactly like an adult? I think the audiance laughs and cheers because Adora did nothing you would expect from a kid She speaks in a very professional way and I think that is what makes her speech so adorable. But it shows the opposite of what she is trying to say: That adults should listen to children. But here are grown-ups who listen to an adult (an adults mind) in a childs body.So it is easy to think "Wow, if all kids were like her we would certainly listen to them." But then kids would be like adults.