Talks

Adora Svitak: Lo que los adultos pueden aprender de los niños.

Filmed Feb 2010 • Posted Apr 2010TED2010
TED2010
  • Embed
  • Download
  • FavoriteFavorited
  • Rate

You can share this video by copying this HTML to your clipboard and pasting into your blog or web page.

560 x 315
640 x 360
853 x 480
Subtitles:
Loading …

You either have JavaScript turned off or have an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. To view this rating widget you need to get the latest Flash player.
If your browser allows only "trusted sites" to execute Javascript, you should add the "googleapis.com" domain to your whitelist to allow our Flash detection to work properly.

TED Conversations

Got an idea, question, or debate inspired by this talk? Start a TED Conversation.

Comment on this Talk

687 total comments

This comment will be attributed to . Not ? Sign Out.

Characters remaining: 2000

progress indicator

This comment will be attributed to . Not ? Sign Out.

Characters remaining: 2000

La niña prodigio Adora Svitak dice que el mundo necesita un pensamiento infantil: ideas audaces, creatividad salvaje y, en especial, optimismo. Los grandes sueños de los niños merecen grandes expectativas, dice, comenzando por la voluntad de los adultos tanto de aprender de los niños como de enseñar.

A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy. Full bio »

Translated into Spanish by Agustin Pardo
Reviewed by Jaime Gonzalez Magallanes
Comments? Please email the translators above.

More talks translated into Spanish »

Related playlists New View more »

  • Where do ideas come from? 5
    Where do ideas come from?
    Curated by TED How does the metaphorical lightbulb go off? Is it a flash of genius? The power of crowds? These heady talks explore the nature of ideas...
  • Ken Robinson: 10 talks on education 10
    Ken Robinson: 10 talks on education
    Curated by Ken Robinson Education legend Sir Ken Robinson picked the talks he loves — all full of insight, bright ideas and, of course, creativity.
  • Re-imagining school 12
    Re-imagining school
    Curated by TED All over the world, there's a growing consensus that our education systems are broken. These educators offer lessons in how we might re-imagine...

What to Watch Next

Play_icon

Sirena Huang: An 11-year-old's magical violin

Play_icon

Jennifer Lin: Improvising on piano, aged 14

What Your Friends are Watching

Related Tags

Creative Commons

We want you to share our Talks!

Just follow the guidelines outlined under our Creative Commons license.