分类目录归档：children
Hi.
Let me ask the audience a question:
Did you ever lie as a child?
If you did, could you please raise your hand?
Wow! This is the most honest group of people I've ever met.
(Laughter)
So for the las
Worldwide, over 1.5 billion people experience armed conflict.
In response, people are forced to flee their country,
leaving over 15 million refugees.
Children, without a doubt,
are the most innocent a
Today I want to confess something to you,
but first of all I'm going to ask you a couple of questions.
How many people here have children?
And how many of you are confident
that you know how to bring
Our society routinely makes decisions
without consulting a quarter of the population.
We're making choices about land use, energy production and natural resources
without the ideas and experiences of
For over 40 years, I've been a clinical social worker
and a developmental psychologist.
And it seemed almost natural for me to go into the helping professions.
My parents had taught me to do good for
Transcriber:
A few years ago,
a student came up to me after the second day of my class
on parenting and child development.
She hesitated for a second and then she confessed,
"I'm really interested in
I want to talk to you about teaching children to read.
Because what we're doing is not working.
Globally, according to UNESCO, 56% of primary school aged children
are not reaching minimum proficiency
I want to talk to you about teaching
children to read because what we're
doing is not working globally according
to UNESCO 56 percent of primary
school-aged children are not reaching
minimum proficien
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we are here today because United Nations
have defined goals for the progress of
countries they're called Millennium
Development Goals and the reason I
really like these goals is that t
having spent 18 years as a child of the
state in children's homes and foster
care you could say that I'm an expert on
the subject and in being an expert I
want to let you know that being an
expert doe