I'm 17 | Kate Simonds | TEDxBoise 

I highly doubt that is true.

If people can call a 70 year old couple "cute" then age is no excuse.

+speed great minds think alike (i dont think we are great minds but u r probably thinking the same as you are reading this )

DJ dom with that stupid-ass attitude u best bet people will not take you seriously.

Same, it's such an awkward age

Wow... just wow. (Usually in my school teachers check if person knows definition of that word from memory and, if student knows then they more likely to believe it's not copied)

IKR

This happens all the time with me, just because I had a large vocabulary, differently from my classmates.

I agree with you, an there's alot of discouraging teachers out there an there not doing any good

teachers be like: "how dare you have an above average knowledge for children your age?"

true story

Yup

+aka Utopian yup 'like' way moar

In many ways

+aka Utopian and there are lots of kids and other teens with humility who are way more mature than her.

Haha

Jason Hathaway I swear every comment section has one person with a danganronpa pfp

Mayank Talwar i wouldnt have recognized second game byakuya unless you pointed that out lmao

This would have gotten even cringier than this whole TED talk

@@3lietechhack646 speaking for the right for you voice to be heard isn't cringe

exactly!

+Kara Camille Delonas Yep, other than 907 thousand people on youtube, people don't listen. Adults don't listen to kids, kids don't listen to adults. Kids don't listen, adults don't listen, seniors don't listen. That is the way it is. It's not a adults don't listen to kids problem. Instead of complaining we should think of ideas to change it, make it better...it would be better if people listened....I listened and didn't hear any good ideas on changing things.

If you wanna know what it's like to not be taken seriously...become 62 or 70. The whole culture is built around pleasing, placating, marketing to and understanding people of your age group. Just look at what's showing in theaters. You are expressing personal sentiment. We are in fact a youth oriented culture. People of my age are as relevant as a phone booth. I am no longer treated with nearly the respect that I used to get.

Maybe you aren't taken seriously because you are so bitter.

i noticed that most girls are bitter about this issue. The seniors ain't listen to you NOT because you're young. They're aint listen to you because you're a dumb bitch!

So true

You said it

Not true when are we expected to pay rent ect

Marcia that’s the most dumbest point I’ve ever heard

Because you have zero real world experience and the people who do have it are preparing you for it?

Sarah Luna the whole school system needs to be reformed

I know what you mean. I used to be so energetic and I loved trying new things and doing stuff. I would write, draw,sing, dance, bake, you name it. Now I have time for maybe 2 activities and I don't have to time to try out anything I'm interested in. My parents don't listen to me when I say I don't want to do sciences and they are making me take two using up the time I could be using to do stuff I'm interested in. I'm learning nothing useful in school and even the programs they do have for students with ideas they want to explore teachers and councillors actively tell students they shouldn't be taking them. It needs to change soon.

Agreed, and next time they ask you why, tell them what you just wrote down about unnecessary subjects and hours of school. They way not get too mad even, as I know some teachers agree with it, but how can they speak out, because it’s their one job, pays their bills and they too scared/can’t afford to get fired.

Pythagorean*

Yeah good points made. I found a similar experience way back in the early 90s when in high school. It seemed that the whole purpose of school was to 'get you ready for the real world and a career' and yet, I remember clearly that, in 5 years of high schooll, we had only a single 2 hour session with a bunch of career counsellors who could help us make a decision about what we would best be suited doing after school. I never learnt anything about budgeting, renting a property, organising anything, travelling, workplace issues, just nothing whatsoever about real life. I learnt trigonometry, calculus, proper english grammar/spelling etc, the function of the human heart etc etc. But apart from that single 2 hour session in all my 12 years of schooling, I never learnt anything about real life. It's like you're just expected to figure out the most important things in life on your own. If you don't have close relationships with your parents or your parents are not educated smart professionals who can really point you in the right direction, then you're really quite screwed because you have no one to learn from. It's absolutely bizarre. And then you have people give you strange looks when you've finished school and you say you don't know what you want to do with your life. How can you just magically figure this out when you're so busy studying maths and english and preparing for quite difficult exams. When you think that the vast majority of what you learn in school you genuinely NEVER EVER use in the real world, It's a ridiculous system.

And that's me

I"m 33 now. I was one of those kids who got made fun of for being a teacher's pet for raising my hand too much. Haters!

By other students...

Personally, I raise my hand all the time to ask question and nobody ever bothered me about it

​@@ryanmarshall4741 ikr? people ignore your value...

28 here and I probably will never know or be able to know.

Whаt Мen REALLY Wаnt => twitter.com/7b3c9fb14125d6cd5/status/804693412402241537 I m 17 Kate Simonds TЕEDхBoise

18 and just like you

I'm gonna cry

I am 90 and I had sex with 72 virgins, learnt internet, my wife is 29, barely a third of my age and I am no Christian, Muslim or Jew. I am just a liar =).

Exactly

The only way to be curious is to hope and be patient until university; cause it's the place where there is hope about studying what you are really interested in. Also, it's where the teachers are not there to just read you a book but are actually professionals about their subject and are always happy to learn you more if you want to. The thing is... i was patient enough. But my curiosity began to sleep and i'm still trying to wake it up now that's it's time for it to be around :/

I try not to raise my hand because I already know the answer if I answer I question I feel I'm stealing the experience from the other students and If I ask a question Im asking a question no one else understands.

@@meliazeaman2772 that's means you are incredibly intelligent

In my case, i don’t raise my hand in class anymore because I used to get mocked for always asking questions in class and stuff...

My mum say that to me

@@mahamnasir7904 Same🙁

You live a very sheltered life if you confuse the term "real world" with "physical reality"

I'm very sorry you can't understand what a metaphor is you probably weren't taught that in school.

@@sadomi6657 *taught

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

Yes

OMG Yes!!!!

lmaoooo i was gonna comment thatttt

I also thought like that!! Omg

Well said. As someone who is almost 50, I think alot of us forget that we were also that age, once. Part of the problem; however, is that many teens aren't as engaged as you are, or she is, in the choices that directly affect them. They are busy being teenagers, and we as adults are content to sit back and say "That's what they do.". And teens are also content to sit back and complain about the choices made on there behalf, but do nothing about them. Because we're adults and "We just don't get it.". The future will be bright with more voices like yours.

Preach!

Also, I'm not sure how common but many adults might find the 'new kids' opinions radical or new and might not want to hear such ideas and are content on suppressing these 'new ideas' the way they see fit. I've personally encountered this which is born out of uncertainty, insecurity etc. Or just plain hard day and not looking to engage in a debate with a much younger person. Anyway I can't say how common it is but it has also happened.

Ana-Sofia Velasco God bless your soul you.

Ana-Sofia Velasco completely right

i feel it too

how is the public school system not relevant to a college student audience?? public education decisions affect public and even some private universities. there are standardized state curriculums for classes like college mathematics.

game freak wannabe non.

lol i just was thinking that!

but it's a pandemic

If she would cure this pandemic

LOL I WAS THINKING THAT

Hahahahah my thoughts though hahahahaha

exlibrisas damn right

Only people without life experience deem it worthless.

very true

exlibrisas | Agreed

exlibrisas plus older people know nothing about technology and that's really important right now

She's nothing special. She's average. That's her whole point of the TED talk! Teenagers ARE this smart, if we treat them with any modicum of respect, or give them a real chance to earn it.

+Madison Ray yessss

TheFuktastic so respectful, huh? but i guess not irl!

tim cook y did u have to make something positive into something negative tf what's ur problem m8

ACryingFan i meant that we all like women sexually rather than knowledge-wise. I never said this is negative.

? I don't get it

This vid was published in 2015, so she must be 22 or 23.

NO SHE'S 22

bruhاحمد عصام احم

22

I'm surprised nobody replied to this dad joke in 2 years

@@bruhbroham8760 LMAO

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hi Andrew, I’m dad

Hi andrew

you have done the world the greatest good. thank you

Thank you for being an amazing person for the next generation.

that's a good idea, i will start doing it with my kids in the future

Love this

I wish you were my parent.

@@vrl. Found the boomer.

*FACT*

@@vrl. ok BOOMER

LMFAO true

@@vrl. KO boomer

PREACH

Amen to that!

Yass 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Let me screenshot this comment!!

Factsssss

Hey, same here! I also think younger people are a lot more open-minded about stuff.... and it's funny how some adults think teenagers are incapable of wanting to learn - I have a lot of teachers that doesn't even make an effort to make the learning interesting. We're supposed to do that ourselves, which we could if they had teached us to. I don't raise my hand because of the fear of being made fun of, even when I know the correct answer. Sigh. PS. I give a shit.

i give a shit

hey OP, I give all the shits on this comment! don't let what anyone thinks about your opinion keep you from speaking out. @ Incorrect Grammar: also to add that when adults think teenagers are incapable of wanting to learn, they forget that at this age in our life is when we learn the most.

I'm 16 and still raise my hand, I probably answer (or attempt to) answer 75% of the questions. It honestly doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, it is a good skill to learn if you can deal with mini failures, and being wrong. Plus you learn when you participate, nothing to lose unless you're mad c00l kid that is going so far in life that you can't lose your mad reputation!

I'm still (or again?) here raising my hand everytime a question is asked at school at 15. I stopped for a while because it didn't seem to matter, then started it again since I'm not allowed to read my books or draw in class so I'd just be even more bored and I realised it DOES matter-it will determine what grade you get for participating in class. The problem with that is that that is quite literally it, I won't change anything by giving the correct answer to a question asked in school, and the good grades soon stop really mattering-except if I where to stop and get worse grades I'd feel awful because I knew could do it and just choose not to, nevermind the fact that I'm, too, just about the only one in my class that does this and most of the others just fail so badly that they can answer only in the rarest of cases, and that paying attention and trying to pretty much solely answer the teachers questions, combined with the absolute lunacy and zombie like behaviour of our class (art class, if you don't expect much your expectations are too high) can really start wearing you down after a while. I just want one day in school not having to be the one doing the whole stupid question-answer game with a teacher that probably knows that I know the answer because I've already answered the question whenever it was asked since it was taught to us, usually to a backdrop of the others having a merry conversation about weed. I've brought this (this being the total ineptitude as well as impossible behaviour of my class) up on several occasions and in 8th grade my responses where mostly "oh, come on, you're just being oversensible" and "oh, they'll grow out of it". One year later and guess who's doing panicking that over 70% are failing the class (spectacularly in some cases) and quite a few are a short way from getting thrown out of school (which is quite a feat here I might add).

Ismail Lamrabet technically we, the 20 year olds are adults. However, most adults don't see us as real adults yet. More than teens, but not the same as a 30 year old. "how do you know, you're not out of college yet" i have heard this. I think this topic affects all of us. There is always someone who says "oh you cant know, because...." even thought they themselves don't contribute more to solving the problem either.

YEP!

more time at the kiddie table

Their eyes*

Dude that sounds awesome. As an electrical engineer in college, I would love to see what you are working on. I totally respect what you are doing

Mr. go get ur idea to the top I am so happy so so so u know why I just think about the same idea about making an engine that works on water... oh my god u get that so happy and I'm 13

+javeria hameed If your going to act like that, then why don't you tell me how it works? It's actually not that hard in theory, and the same method be applied to make gas been more efficiently (there's a hint).

+Bound Darkness Sorry, I think I might have read the tone on that wrong.

Wait they don't? Im in highschool in the middle east and we have economics and statistics classes.

They do have those classes most of the time

Mitzi Salcedo there is so many important subjects though. Is that one important enough?

Mitzi Salcedo well obviously teaching something at school wont significantly improve everyone s opinion about going to greater lenghts to help the earth. It might worsen things off. Thats my argument

Mitzi Salcedo you seem to see it as if school is better than it really is. If you teach liberalism in school, people wont just become liberals. If you teach environement stuff as school, people will just do the work for the end mark. They wont change their habits.

Philip Fry Sounds like an uninformed opinion, and i dont think it matters :) why you gotta be a jerk dude?

I was 17 in 2015 and I can confirm that is our age range

Paul Foster 😂

Yes, quite possibly

Or a meth head, we dont know. Look her up.

I think shes dancing for $'s

I'm 15 and everyone ignores me :'v

I'm 17 and i physically cringe at the things i said/thought when i was around 13; don't be too quick to promote your beliefs. I'm still having my views changed!

Amileah Castillo that's a bless -_- ..

I'm 18 now and my beliefs have been pretty much the same since I started at high school. Converted out of christianity to atheism and agnosticism at about the age of 14 and I've never looked back. Somehow i find religion to have been my main philosophy obstacle in my life, which is part of the reason why I genuinely disadvice to follow rules because of some plausible doom which 'if you don't think this way, then you're gonna suffer'. One of the reasons I find religion to be some kind of philosophy test on people, to realize social constructs to be manipulating and the religious counter aguement being 'what if it's true though?' Ultimately people should end up with 'this shouldn't affect my perception on things and alter my original thought' as the rational end conclution. I consider anyone who is still religious to not have been questioning their religion to the point of faith depletion. Look at Islam, no tolerance to questioning faith, rules or anything nor apostasy.. wonder how those barbaric and patriarchial morals still stands today.....

P3ndu1uM I became an atheist when I was just 13 years old, and i actually suffered a lot, because until the day I realized that god didn't exist, I prayed almost all the time. But now I'm pretty sure it was the best thing I did at that age

Nice to see that I'm not the only person on this damn planet that sees that..

As long as we also remember/realize that it can happen both ways.

pallenda Absolutely. And it does.

Everyone always has to find a way to victimize themselves.

Molly Jamin p

To that girl in the video: FYI, all your assumptions of what my assumptions would be are wrong. I had no assumptions, other than that you are a girl, have something to say, will be 'professional', you are wearing clothes, that you are 17, and more... But, I had no assumptions that you have done anything noteworthy, that you were a child genius or anything like that. I just came here to hear you say something.

Kid r

Kid Jess same

almen

I know how to think and how to act and I can wait until someone is done screaming before screaming back. I have the feeling no one else can, and still adults pretend to listen to me. We have that teacher who is just terribly ate teaching, screams at us when he thinks we're not doing the work though we do. We went to our mentor and some other important people. They listen to us and make notes, sometimes they tell us they might be able to do something about it, and we never hear from it again. I chose to stay home for a few weeks, because almost all of the teachers let us talk in class and it made me too frustrated to even try to concentrate. There is no discipline, I may sound old now, but try to do a listening test for yourself to understand if you get it, when people literally scream the answers in your ear. I'm seventeen and I'm an adult, though I don't know how to eat and sleep (food addiction and sleeping problems).

+Fida Aifiya Yes it does. Now go back to school.

+Dennis Reynolds what do you mean?

Sarcasm, obviously. I mean this is RU-vid.

Yeah everyone is unique, age is just one variable :)

+Fida Aifiya the Thing all of us suffer from is adultism . this Video hit me so hard

Dude you wrote it like an IELTS essay.

+Regina Nemo yes, it is like a bit I think. I just wanted to share my thoughts. I wasnt careful with the language 😂😂😂

+aslı yener and bro,I am not a dude. picture belongs to my favourite actor-yoo ah in 😂😉

you re really good at writing.In my school kids cant even spell their names.and sorry about the pic Asli from Turkey :)

Thank you. I took my all classes in English back in the university. It must have helped me. Most of the students are like that here too. No problem about the name. Good night, by the way 😁😁

+Kayla Delight That's exactly how I felt too!

+Kayla Delight but she was right; most adults in the room probably DID think this. i realise you're 19, but let's be honest, adults don't consider someone an adult until they're at least 20,22. so theoretically, you fall in the teen bracket, and it makes sense that you would respect her because she is 17.

+Kayla Delight i'm not good at explaining myself but i hope you didn't find my comment patronising; it wasn't intended to be

+Kayla Delight Yeah, these people in the audience are adult intellectuals. Being 19, you relate to her because you are so close to her age. Most any adults you ask WOULD hold this assumption.

+Kayla Delight Well of course not everyone was thinking that but I know I was and I know others were as well.

In middle school even some friends made fun of me for being a nerd simply because I got good grades, paid attention in class, and didn't miss homework, it got so annoying, I'm glad I got new friends that don't make fun of me anymore, but I also lost a lot of motivation to learn.

Same thing here...

Same thing....

Wow I felt like my exact situation has been written here

supi lenne

Same here

wow that's cool

There is no hungarian subtitles yet.

Things will come true if u r trying to pursue them

It's not enough to simply believe in yourself, that's just one small part of the equation. You also need to look at the economic demand for your particular chosen field/occupation. I went to university and as part of my science degree, I studied geology. I didn't continue with it, I focused on microbioloy and genetics. A friend of mine continued with geology. A couple of years later I bumped into him and he was unemployed and really really stressed and unhappy. Even though he had studied hard, the geology industry was in a slump. There wasn't much mining going on and he hadn't found a job in over a year. He was totally depressed and if he couldn't find a j ob in the following year, it would be as if he never studied (2 years is about the maximum you can be out of a field before you are considered to have lost all your skills). Meanwhile, the biological research industry was doing fine and I found a job straight away. When you're young all you tend to think about is what you are interested in and what you like but that's not good enough. You need to do research and actually find information on the economy, demand for different occupations, competition for various jobs, salary levels for different jobs, educational requirements for those jobs etc etc. If you arm yourself with all that information about your chosen field, then you can have a truly intelligent conversation with an older person about it. In fact they will probably be blown away by the fact that you've done that research and know all of that stuff. They might actually take you seriously if you've taken the time to learn it all well, and be able to back up your arguments with facts and data.

sbarnett37tiger Barnes Ya

++++i have almost the same situation

Where are you from, girl?

Devin Menge Yup. I'm a freshmen in college. I can relate to that

Gus Mart same

Devin Menge Right??? I didn't need algebra or calculus at 17...but if there was a class on how to maintain an apartment or how to do my taxes, I could've REALLY used that.

Devin Menge i know right? it makes no sense at all. there's no teaching in school about life, at all, and unfortunately parent's go the same route. its so frustrating and not encouraging

Carolus Rex of Sweden was crowned in 1697. He was 15 and became king, and three years later, he was on the front lines of battle, defending his country from invading armies that often vastly outnumbered his own.

Yes, but the fact that adults do not respect us restricts our freedom of speech and our right to feel understood and like a valuable member of society (which we are). As teenagers we constantly need validation, so please respect us. Also, that whole respect thing goes both ways, if adults want us to respect them, they should also respects us AND our opinions, even if they differ from theirs. Thank you!

@@sirivechi5292 are you 17 too ?

It's sad that schools don't adequately prepare young people for the real world and yes, schools also stifle creativity and critical thinking.

Posting this here 'cause I'm curious: Here in Germany we have to do a compulsory internship in the 9th or 10th grade: in the same year we learn how to write a CV in German and practice job interviews. We then have to seek out the internship spot completely independently and have 2-3 weeks off school to work. Does something like this exist in the US or UK?

it doesnt in spain

Yeah, of course, all young people feel that way. It's so hilarious you think you're so unique.

same haha

Related

Did you cure?

yay me too

same :)

So true.

Jan, I have to disagree in part to your statement, getting respect from anyone is down to you, what you say, how you act and the decisions that you make and the way that you convey your thoughts, the goal posts dont move, but if we do not learn from our mistakes then ,it will seem like they do, some men think they can gain respect by power or position others by the very nature of their humanity and their deeds, we are all judged differently by everyone we meet, it is also quite often a two way thing, show respect to gain respect, i have a 17 year old daughter who shows me complete respect and trust, not because i am her father but because i listen to her and respect her opinion, yet she shows little respect to those who did not reciprocate.

Hi Tony, in an ideal world you are completely right, and I'm pleased that you have such a good relationship with your daughter, however, the fact remains that many people hold some form of prejudice. It is not always ones actions which lead to judgement. Each of us go through life facing negative views based on our appearance/gender/nationality/race etc etc. And as the world is so varied, this girl will continue to face these issues throughout; as the saying goes, you can't please all of the people all of the time. Unfortunately, in many instances, just the way a person dresses or their hair colour brings judgement from others.

+Jen Brocklehurst yes you are right. we are constantly facing judgement based on our appearance or views. and yes you are right there will always be new obstacles to navigate as we go through life. and I can only talk from my own experiences. but if you treat others how you wish to be treated then generally speaking you will be shown some respect. I think the single most important thing if a person wants respect then you have to not tolerate other people's demands. I personally am very outdpoken and won't tolerate anything that I feel is unjust or unfair and will say so. and I believe that people will often show respect to those who will not allow themselves to be treated poorly. maybe its all about attitude or strengh of character. but we are all different people and some people are reasonable and others not do much. but ultimately we are the ones who decide if others treat us with respect or value our opinion.

This is heartbreakingly true. Its a problem for all ages more often than not, but that just makes it all the more necessary to find a solution. Shes going off of the experience she has, so the solution she presented is specific, but we can take it and apply it to the issue of disrespect in general. Right now there are so many people who want to be heard and not enough willing to listen. So here it is: you and I, along with anyone else who sees the problem have to start listening... to our peers, to those older than each of us and to those younger than each of us. Great ideas come from everywhere, and its time we start letting them. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. - S.R.C.

@Sloddervozzz lucky

Once a teacher asked us in 10th grade, " What is the name of the planet we live on?". As an "introductory question", I suppose.

Exactly!

Completely agree!

I need my teachers to be like you :(

You say "like" a bit too much. Exactly how a 17 would talk.

WOW! Clap Clap... -_-

I would seriously punch you if you said that to my face. But since this is the internet and the only way to get back at somebody is to bash at your keyboard then that's what I'll have to do... and you're last post was stupid and idiotic, my original post made sense, you guys are probably, and I'm just guessing here by the tone of which you are typing, quite young yourselves, I'm guessing that you're in your 20's maybe 30's, and you are contributing nothing to this video, no opinion about anything said in this video and therefore your comments are pointless and not worth reading. My original post actually contributed to the argument that was in the video, and therefore a valid post that actually made sense and contributed to the point that is trying to be made in the video, you are contributing nothing and just are just dicking with dirt as it were.

+Sam Field maybe the reason you're not respected is because you say immature things like: "I would seriously punch you in the face". Hmmmm....

Disrespected by you, hmmm, yeah you've really got me there...

They should be interested 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ because she is very smart and has a great ideas to share it at this young age

+Daniel Gable well said. Wouldn't say I'd agree with her. But she deserves some respect to have the courage standing there

+Daniel Gable Well said!

she will not achieve anything. She didn't whine or complain? how does a ignorant child coming in a room saying if we only thought of the children maybe give a little power to them or else its not fair and ill feel sad. This is not the display of maturity but the destruction of it the castration of her self esteem.

Esra or DJ Tanner

Esra It's because of the knowledge and those ironic laughters.I remembered her too! :D

lol

Or Ariel Winters

Exactly what I was thinking.

I notice this too. In my art class, people who copy other artists' work create more 'impressive' artworks (because they copied it, of course. Not because of their skills) than the people who have original ideas but a poorer excecution because there is no picture that they can copy. The people that copy get higher grades than the people that are original and try to improve.

I have been experiencing this lately. For the start of the new school year one of my teachers had us make a "all about me" presentation. At my grade level everyone has caved into the cookie cutter mold of the public school system, and it pisses me off. Every single one of these presentations were the same thing. No one was different from someone else. This year I am striving for individually. I made my presentation completely different from everyone else's. This year for PSSA's (because I'm in cyber school, this is the only time I ever see my classmates) I'm going to show up in the most crazy ambitious outfits that'll make everyone question my sanity.

Actually copying is very good to learn, but i think teachers are using it the wrong way. I don't really care.

"always pay attention in school so you can grow up and 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭" "hey maybe we should stop conditioning teens around the world to just work, follow orders and ignore their own feelings" "no, not likle that."

THIS.

this is an amazing quote

Hunter Of Endermen please ask us because WE ARE THE PEOPLE GETTING SHOT AT

Yeah, sounds like a great plan to have half educated infants tell the grown ups what they should do, and how they should run the world. Sounds like a fantastic plan. Why are we even educating them to think more like "us" if they already got all the "correct" answers?

I’m 16 and support guns🤷‍♂️

I have. And most lacked a basic understanding of the Constitution, statistics, and current policies.

Teenager's aren't professionals

Wendy Vaught parents should not be the authority on how to think. Teachers should.

+Wendy Vaught Teaching what and how is tricky when people teach you how to think the way they want them to think... Examples; Hitler, the media, Jesus.

Moriah Green no

Ew this is why adults think the youth is foolish

not to say about 16 or less, i've had a really hard time despite being motivated and willing to spend the rest of my energy to work

there are sooooo many young, motivated teachers that really want to teach and that have the energy to, but they don‘t get a job because of the even more older teachers that have to work until their retirement and can‘t leave but can‘t teach properly anymore because they don‘t have the energy or the motivation nor do they understand the students as good as someone closer to their age would .... and it‘s not fair to the students or the teachers

True!

JE ENN obviously she is more matture if yor only 10 she been on this earth 7 years longer

"older", not "old"

when people either dont read or aren't english but still try to correct people

Hahaha.

Aren't English

Matea Todorovski, it is a good thing you are being engaged and learning. As the the political question, it is because they seem to have a louder voice. It’s a good thing that you rise above your peers! Keep learning, it really pays off!

Matea Todorovski same thing happens to me. Just because I know things that aren't taught in school, they call WHAT I SAY is a buff even after I tell that I learned that from a highly researched organisation like TED-ED and NASA.

I genuinely promise you, you were not called a know it all for politely raising your hand and answering questions It was almost certainly your smug, arrogant attitude

Ziska Spahn that is me

90% of the kids in my classes

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or E they have social anxiety like me

or F they are introverts and love to listen more and need to think more but really love to do presentations

Bre Strum Lives?

A Weirdo Who Luvs WATERMELOON ...autocorrect. lol life

Bre Saifullah I assumed that was the case because auto correct is everywhere

DeathUnbound Gaming i to "dropped out" as a sophomore in high school, I turn 18 in April therefore I am not allowed to call it Dropping Out because you can not legally drop out until 18, i at in GED/HSE classes now and I have been for a little less then 8 months. I test next month. There where times I came home crying because the teacher made me feel stupid and said it would take me longer then 6 months to get my GED, he won that argument by throwing a test at me with things that I hadn't been taught. Thugs that wouldn't be on the test. So because I didn't pass the test he refused to let me take the BIG test. He did that twice, I finally started playing his game, only better. I started doing math everyday, every minute that I wasn't busy doing chores or running to town I was sitting at the table with my math books open. I proved to him that I AM good enough that I do know what I'm doing that I am smart. That I do have worth. He asked me what I wanted to do and when I told him I wanted to be a CNA he told me "you have to help yourself before you can help others" what he doesn't know is I am helping myself, I deal with the constant verbal abuse from him every week, I deal with the feelings of never being smart enough. I deal with the fact that I will never be able to do the one thing I've always wanted to do, serve in the Army/Military because I have depression.. He sets these goals for me that are unrealistic. He tells me I have to finish a 40+ math page book in a week, I asked if he could do it and he said no, yet he expects me too. In a class of 8 people he pushes me harder then anyone else. He yells at me when I'm slacking in my work. He yells at me for feeling weak (I've fainted because I was scared/nervous). He knows I'm terrified of men yet he always just real close to me and tells me if a student is gonna achieve getting their GED they do it within a year or two, sometimes 3. But if they exceed 3 years they are just gonna hit a dead end. Let me remind you I am barley 8 months into this and he already expects me to fail. Because he doubts me I know in my mind I have to fight harder every week to prove him wrong.

Danielle Jewel I'm sorry to hear that. That sounds like an awful and abusive situation, and I personally would advise you to get out of it as soon as you can. He has no right to treat you that way under any circumstances. I have chronic depression, fatigue and other stuff that impact me hour to hour so I know how that goes. But seriously, I would recommend ditching him and the class AND talking to someone about it. It's not worth it to go through that for a stupid test, and not only is that emotional abuse, but it's harrassment as well. You could legitimately bring him up on charges for that. AS for study material, I would recommend pre-tests and a book called 'Master the GED Test' which gives in-depth step by step instructions and examples for everything you might need to know for the test. It's also 10-25$ online. I've only been going for 5 months as far as studying goes and i'm halfway through all of the tests, so that '3 years' is bull as well. Hope this helps and your situation gets better!

DeathUnbound Gaming what book or website did u use 2 learn how to use HTML?

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Thank you! You completely disregarded the point of the video!

K exactly! just tell them "your feelings are just hormones. every emotion of every person regardless of age is merely a combination of chemicals in the brain. how is that less valid? isn't it more valid, since there is a physical creation of a feeling?"

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Sara Cullens this sounds like amazing stuff, so if anyone talks you down for it then say "do you want me to wait until I'm older and have no imagination like you?"

How exactly does that serum work? (Note that I'd ask the same question if you were 5 or 50)

Sara Cullens that sounds awesome!

Prove your point, I am 29(also have anxiety/depression) keep up with politics and I'm giving you the chance to share your ideas.

Haha good addition

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." But age is just a number since we don't know what young individuals are capable of...oh wait.

Yes, all these people actually did something for being respected. This talker here though, she wrongly assumes that we just disrespect her because she's seventeen, which is not the case, we don't give her respect because she has nothing to say.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at 19* I completely agree with you though

I agree. When she talked about how people think they are suddenly gifted with knowledge at 21, I realized that our laws literally assume that. They assume that everyone, by the age of 21, will be responsible adults, and that everyone under 21 is irresponsible.

basically don't be mean to people and encourage everyone to actually research something that they're interested in, and relate objectively important things to the central interest. i relate the political system to how terrible education is, and that every vote changes education one way or the other. i know it's important to pay attention to most elections, especially if there's actually a candidate working to change the way students learn for the better, instead of terrible standardized testing.

Why mostly? I'm just wondering what it is that you don't agree with.

Maybe elaborate on the 'mostly' ?

she is on a TED talk because as a 17 year old,she has done more than just being 17..she has realized something...tried it,and seen that it works...and now..she is trying to spread this to other people.. I am not going o listen to you because you are 17,im not going to listen because you are 17,with something to say. ...and as a high school teacher, this is a good reminder on how i should deal with my students....

She isn't alone in realizing this. It's not a groundbreaking discovery. It's a fact of life that people have been dismissing for a long time. Miss Simonds is simply giving voice to what many people feel or have felt as teenagers. The whole point of this talk is to encourage us to recognize that ALL teenagers are far more capable and intelligent and creative than society gives them credit for. You kinda missed the boat on this one.

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It’s fine. It’s great that you’re standing up for the environment! Best wishes from Texas!

Listen to them, yes. They are creative for sure. But they lack the years of experience needed to flesh out an idea and see the consequences of it in action. This is why city councils aren't collaborating with teens for example. Not that adults are running things any better. But this is mostly due to years of built up resentment, hunger for power, pandering, etc. And possibly because of the way they were treated as a young person. But not for lack of life experience.

Thats what they say when they don't have any counter arguments or don't want to elaborate.

Jay rene in turkey it is a habit to say it.

And he's correct! You will agree later.

Oh wow it’s literally the exact same for me, even the fact that’s it’s my stepdad who tells me this

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