reflective essay-after watching Adora's video

Today, I want to write an essay based on what I watched. I watched a video of Adora Svitak about 'what adults can learn from kids'. Kids are always hopeful, find good ideas without thinking of how hard the process is. She claimed that in the school, teachers could also learn from kids, but not just teachers talking in front of them. I think she is trying to teach a lesson saying that adults are not always better than children, but have a different perspective than adults.

Here is the video that I watched. I thought it was really good

When I listened to that, I thought of mosquitoes. It is not exactly the same situation as with students and teachers, but I think it is pretty similar. Teachers/adults think kids are not good. Also people think mosquitoes are bad. When I was in the 2nd grade, i changed my mind. Mosquitoes, I still do not like them, but I thought of a needle that is a little as mosquitoes mouth. Even though mosquito is not a good creature, it has something that we can still learn from them.

Also, I had another lesson that is more similar from Adora's idea. Last year, me and my brother did a competition of building a castle creatively. I thought I would win for sure, because I am older, and I have more experiences making things than him.(he was only 6 years old) However, I   actually lost. Still, I am a kid, the best creative/fresh idea gradually decreases from when you are a baby. I think if baby can speak, I think they will be the best people who can create new things. We were both building without the instructions, my brother built a castle you can find in fairy tales. He just beat me in the competition. At that time, I learned a lesson that I should learn from my brothers too, and also I should respect more like they are adults even though I still respect them.

Adora's lesson was about saying that adults are not better than kids, also everything on Earth has something to learn from them, and the adults should give kids opportunity to teach adults what they think is right, because kids will take over the world, so to make better people to develop the world. I was pretty surprised by the video, because there have been very many times when I thought similar to her. From now on, I will not forget the lesson and try to achieve what I think is right. I hope you enjoyed what you just read, and thank you for your attentions.