I begin by asking you to close your eyes for a moment and picture a kindergarten classroom. 25 eager five year five-year-olds fill this room. They're running, laughing, running around as much as they possibly can and finally find their space down on the carpet where they anxiously await to learn something new.Can you see them now. Shift your focus to the doorway where five or more students stand outside, peering through the glass. Their tiny fists bang desperately at the door.They're crying, pleading for th ...

Before I start, I would like to ask you three simple questions. Raise your hand if growing up you were taught that good people always say yes. Raise your hand if you were also taught that success means having more.More money, more marks, more medals. Okay, great. Raise your hand if you were also taught now very recently to question some of those lessons.Hi, I just turned 20 and yes, I have started to question everything. I think my parents are silently waiting for my teenage rebellion to wear off because th ...

On January 17th, 2007, I was a geeky 13-year-old sitting in the passenger seat of a police car. I was being escorted from my school to the detective's office. I remember being terrified that I'd be placed in the back seat.My mother had many times recounted to me the horrors of the backseat of a police car, the hard plastic seats and the stench of vomit. I was afraid that I had done something wrong for turning in my sexually abusive father. But thankfully, the kind officer let me ride shotgun and gave me a t ...

बिफोर वी बिगिन, आई वुड लाइक इट ऑल ऑफ यू कुड क्लोज योर आइज जस्ट फॉर अ सेकंड। नाउ इमेजिन अ ग्रे वॉल सिटींग इन फ्रंट ऑफ यू। विथ बिट्स एंड पीसेस ऑफ़ पेंट चेसिंग ऑफ ऑफ इट। मे बी हैड अ फ्यू क्रैक्स हियर एंड देयर। अ स्पाइडर क्रोलिंग अप इट्स वेब। मे बी दिस वॉल इज़ जस्ट अ वॉल ऑफ़ योर फियर। व्हाट इफ़ दिस वॉल. वाज़ अ वॉल बिल्ट विथ ऑल द रिजेक्शन दैट यू फेस इन योर लाइफ. व्हाट इज दिस वॉल.इज़ अ कमिटमेंट टू पीपल सेइंग दैट यू कैन नॉट अचीव योर ड्रीम्स बिकॉज़ इट वाज़ टू बिग टू कंटेन इन वन बॉक्स। व्हाट इफ़ वन डे, यू डिसाइड टू वेक अप एं ...

[प्रशंसा] [संगीत] थ्री इयर्स एगो आई टूक अ डिसीजन दैट लिटरली एवरीवन टोल्ड मी दैट दिस इज गोइंग टू बी द डमेस्ट डिसीजन ऑफ योर लाइफ बाय दैट सी अ लॉट ऑफ़ डम डिसीजंस ऑन माय एंड लेट्स टॉक अबाउट दैट मेरे कॉलेज का फाइनल सेमेस्टर का फाइनल एग्जाम था आई वास जस्ट वन वन पेपर अवे फ्रॉम गेटिंग माय डिग्री इन माय हैंड्स। द डे ऑफ़ एग्जाम केम। द इनविजुलेटर कॉल्ड आउट माय नेम बट माय आंसर शीट वाज़ स्टिल एम्प्टी। आई सॉ ऑल माय फ्रेंड्स वर वाकिंग टुवर्ड्स द एग्जाम हॉल। लेकिन मैं ऑपोजिट डायरेक्शन में जा रहा था। आई वाज़ गोइंग आउट ऑफ द गेट् ...

Good afternoon everyone. My name is Masu Hawk Khan. I'm a Windsor parent and when I heard that the theme of this year's TEDex talk was the road less traveled, I wanted to share a personal philosophy or framework that I've developed based on my years of lived experience.I felt that this group of high achieving young women and perhaps high achievers everywhere could benefit from. But before I share the framework, I need to give you all a little personal background for context. So once upon a time in the land ...

A big dream of mine is to one day be on a baking show. Growing up, my favorite show was Master Chef Jr. . And I would imagine that I was one of the kids in the big fancy kitchen cooking and baking my favorite foods, minus the part where Gordon Ramsay yells at me.One thing that always baffled me though was how the chefs never seem to be using a recipe. It's a common phenomenon in baking shows. Maybe just a trick of the camera, but the contestant seemingly pulls a great idea out of nowhere.An idea that simult ...

Hi everyone, I'm Laura and by a quick show of hands, how many runners are in the audience. I'm a middle child, so as my parents would probably agree, I'm really good at running away. In fact, so good at it, I decided to do it every day, every fall and spring throughout all of high school.In my sophomore year, I decided to quit playing soccer to join the cross country team. Something I had always looked at with shock. You run for fun.But ask any cross country runner and they'll probably tell you it's not fun ...

Imagine [Applause] school as a mysterious place steeped in intrigue. Imagine science and exploration through the lens of an exciting Sherlock Holmes mystery, a puzzle you have to use all of your faculties to solve. The detective draws portraits of his suspects, performs forensic experiments to determine the culprit, and connects seemingly separate, coincidental events to reveal the elusive truth.Now, picture this. Your teacher is introducing the complex field of botany to your fidgety fifth grade class that ...

When I was 10 years old, I was diagnosed with one of the rarest allergies in the world. Three forms of chronic urtdicaria reactions that cause me to get shortness of breath, swelling in my limbs, and hives when my body comes into contact with sweat, cold, or tears. Living through cold New England winters, I first learned that I got hives in the snow while sledding with my sister.In PE, I learned that I couldn't run too much less my skin become red and blotchy. But I was able to manage it. Before school, I w ...