Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.
Vocabulary:
a prodigy: someone unusually intelligent or skillful for their age
Mozart was an infant prodigy, composing music at the age of four.The 12-year-old prodigy will play America’s reigning chess champion next week.
to abolish: oficially end (a law, a statement etc)
This tax should be abolished.
Thinking that children are irrational should be abolished.
to hamper: to prevent sb from easily doing or accomplishing sth
Our efforts were hampered by lack of money.
Kids are not as hampered as adults when it comes to imagination.
audacity: brave or rude but shocking behaviour
He had the audacity to say I was too fat.
The sheer audacity of the plan amazed everyone.
inherent: that is basic or permanent part of sth/sb and cannot be removed
Violence is inherent in our society.
Children have an inherent ability to push the boundaries of possibility.
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