hello my name is Cheri Simon and I’ll be
speaking to you about emotional
manipulation in high school yes I know
it sounds like it’s got a little bit of
an evil touch to it but it all make
sense soon enough I’ll first be showing
you a video that was made in order to
get different perspectives on the
question what does it mean to be human
I’ve decided to share this video with
you all because it’s one that I really
appreciate and would like you to keep in
mind as I speak
you
I do I think it means to be human
alone and this is a great question
I do is hide away all those I know is
hide items chase okay Holly no sorry –
is chasing a half upside down I don’t
wanna be the right way round – paradise
Sun grab uplift is somebody that’s what
the human life is supposed to be about
I’m like this someone I think that
success is making the most number of
people’s lives better and I think that
that’s that’s why we choose because we
feel a sense of purpose to make other
people’s lives better
I think that is the point of life is to
say okay I have this one life to live I
want to do with it what would meaning do
is right
being human some of the capability
potential it’s use and keep being human
hormonal so now when we have to
in a way that solves other people solves
the total nature and everything that’s
it
you know Gandhi had this quote Oh
be the change you want to see in the
world I have fully immersed at his mind
identity because we can all talk about
things change and look in a certain way
but if you yourself don’t subscribe to
it what is that it’s not
our title warned you gay straight honest
the only nothing man nothing
being human couldn’t be nicer to survive
I got a son that crossed over he’s a
woman now I support him with all my
because he’s a good kid that’s all that
should matter at the end of the day I
gotta tell my son I mean my daughter and
now he was more man than I will ever be
because you came right out and wanted to
be what you want it to be conservative
issues we put a new movie view a new
deficit deficit a dokkan dokkan men
coming in you do something somebody you
don’t know that’s what life’s about what
else is there
sin is what else is there how much every
search taking everybody on their ass
you know as a brother or sister he would
be
[Music]
we will spread like wildfire Polly does
hideaway I do is all you do is hide away
all we do is chase the day how I do it’s
all we do is chase the day all I did was
fail today all I wanna be is white some
ways all I did was fail today all we do
all we do
[Music]
[Applause]
Wow always it’s me right in the field to
start off I’d like to tell you a little
bit about my presence on this stage came
about I’ve always been wanting to take
any issue regarding environmental
injustice very personally and go on and
my friends about how ruining precious
nature either agreeing selfishness drive
for wealth and the list goes on and on
however on this one Saturday night I
decided to take it a little bit further
with my complaints about the human race
yes I know it all sounds very dramatic
and naive but I was captured by the
moment I sucked into the belief that
there’s really no hope for relatively
just world I use the words were defect
in nature and our presence only leads to
negativity and that’s about when my
friend finally stopped me and said well
you know what you sound crazy to me but
it makes sense
however I’ve got one question for you
what are you going to do about it
because it sounds like you’ve chosen to
simply complain and that’s also what he
said well you should really do a TED
talk and Here I am today I’m going to
assume that most people in this room
would agree that the youth is the future
of our world and most them and more
importantly that their education
dictates that future we spend about
eight hours or one third of a full day
at school with your ATTC for eight hours
which is eight more hours left on ID
which is usually spent doing even more
score considering we dictate so much
time to school it’s inevitable that
school plays an immensely powerful role
in shaping a young mind sure that they
will strive for school has the potential
to do much more than just improve or
math or writing skills which is why I
believe that most educational systems do
not take advantage of their influence
over the youth I think this realization
after closely listening to a
conversation that my uncle was having
with a passing refugee
in Lebanon she spoke about how
Palestinians have very limited rights in
their own countries as well as any other
country they may be seeking refugee
making them somewhat stateless the
conversation made me realize how
uninformed I was about the past Syrian
crisis and not just about the Bosnian
crisis but about global issues in
general the information she shared had
struck me so hard on an emotional level
that I wanted to speak about it
understand the issue more profoundly and
more and most importantly why despite
constantly being in an educational
environment this was the very first time
I sincerely understood one of her
generations most pressing issues a
refugee crisis as a student I believe
that understanding such an issue is just
as important as understanding any class
I take this got me questioning why do
not explicitly learn about such pressing
issues in our everyday lives in high
school now I know some of you may be
thinking what a lazy student just read
the news but reading an article about
how missiles affected country by
yourself and discussing such an article
in class have two different effects one
is just a usual and the other is a young
mind in consultation the conversation
taught me two things
I’d like to emphasize on the first being
that well-informed people care yes I
know this may sound like a very simple
concept but applying this very simple
concept could very well change the way
young minds you the world yes
most students they can glimpse at the
headlines and read the news but doing
just that isn’t going to make the youth
feel an obligation to take action it
isn’t going to spark the fire that makes
a young and striving mind want to make a
purposeful change it really is vital
that young students are thirty educated
about such pressing issues because that
15 minute conversation had a completely
to effect on me a sixteen-year-old high
schooler than he did on my four-year-old
uncle which brings me to my second point
the second concept that became very
clear to me is that a teenager’s
emotions can serve as the driving force
to do good yes of course my uncle took
the issue at heart but at the end of the
day his business was still supervising
the Motorola he earns a living from to
me on the other hand there was a
motivation to want to find meaning in
what I do and use my privileges to help
someone other than myself and my case
isn’t in equality an interesting fact
that helped reinforce my talk is that
teenagers used the amygdala the
emotional part of the brain when making
a rational decision what in adults the
frontal lobes the part of the brain
that’s used for impulse control is more
stimulated by making a rational decision
to put it simply teenagers are
biologically wired to be emotionally
driven now it’s important to remember
that such powerful emotions at such a
young age can be used negatively hay can
make you pessimistic wealth can make you
envious and anger can lead to violence
however this also means that teenagers
can love more sympathize or and feel
more concerned this is why school should
pay more into emotional manipulation to
make students care and I know this
sounds very cliche work towards a better
world now that I have your attention I’d
like to clarify that by emotional
manipulation I’m referring to
emotionally engaging students through
education for positive cause just like
how that video I shared in Hulme an
emotionally affected you it schools
implemented courses that teach young
students about crucial modern issues
such as poverty war crimes and illegal
forms of labor then the emotional
engagement would lead to the investments
of time and attention because
well-informed people care this will push
students to pursue meaningful careers
to make a positive contribution to
society a majority of students I know
graduate from high school saying they
want to study international business
they want to be an investment banker and
when asked why they aren’t quite sure
why and sauce I already hear someone say
is because I want to work towards
tackling the issue of extreme poverty in
the Congo or it’s because I want to work
towards putting an end to modern slavery
unfortunately this makes it very much
tonight the main drive first student is
well now don’t get me wrong there’s
nothing wrong with being a businessman
or an economist however what could be
transformed is the intentions behind the
career for example a close friend of
mine that I’ve known since middle school
has always wanted to study
entrepreneurship and his drive was being
wealthy
however he recently had a change of
heart after being exposed to the
benefits of social entrepreneurship he
realized that he finds more meaning in
social entrepreneurship a career that
allows YouTube business and
entrepreneurship to implement and find
solutions
social cultural and environmental issues
that’s a perfect example meaningful
career is to me a career in which
students find meaning in something other
than just soft game because this set of
soft game is what leads to our
immorality and corruption a corrupt
government is only crops because their
main focuses on their soft game and not
the benefit of the people businesses
that contribute to child labor only do
so because their sole focus is on the
world and soft game the wicked use of a
child labor would be the least of their
concern schools need to work more
towards exposing students to the harsh
realities of the cruel and nasty world
that we’ve created because otherwise the
future generation will not be concerned
they simply won’t care and why this is
because of their lack of exposure to the
realities behind humanity’s criminality
how can we ever expect to solve the
issue of mass panic if the youth isn’t
30 educated about the whites whys and
how’s of its present the answer is we
can’t the answer is we can’t because I
can remember two or three times that
I’ve ever heard a teacher speaks to me
about such pressing issues in class and
even when they do it’s not done
explicitly if done explicitly this would
promote an environment in which students
aren’t talking about the funny meme of
some guy who fell for clear but about
why the 4.8 million Syrian refugees in
need of aid because their country is
being used as battlefield I’d like to
end with a quote by Jane Goodall who is
a scientist that worked with japansese
in eastern Congo the Koch says only if
we understand can we care only if we
care we help and only if we help solve
ABC
remember we can’t ever expect the future
generation to care if the orange will
inform we’re born pure and loving but
society corrupts us and we must be
reminded to stay pure and loving thank
you
speaking to you about emotional
manipulation in high school yes I know
it sounds like it’s got a little bit of
an evil touch to it but it all make
sense soon enough I’ll first be showing
you a video that was made in order to
get different perspectives on the
question what does it mean to be human
I’ve decided to share this video with
you all because it’s one that I really
appreciate and would like you to keep in
mind as I speak
you
I do I think it means to be human
alone and this is a great question
I do is hide away all those I know is
hide items chase okay Holly no sorry –
is chasing a half upside down I don’t
wanna be the right way round – paradise
Sun grab uplift is somebody that’s what
the human life is supposed to be about
I’m like this someone I think that
success is making the most number of
people’s lives better and I think that
that’s that’s why we choose because we
feel a sense of purpose to make other
people’s lives better
I think that is the point of life is to
say okay I have this one life to live I
want to do with it what would meaning do
is right
being human some of the capability
potential it’s use and keep being human
hormonal so now when we have to
in a way that solves other people solves
the total nature and everything that’s
it
you know Gandhi had this quote Oh
be the change you want to see in the
world I have fully immersed at his mind
identity because we can all talk about
things change and look in a certain way
but if you yourself don’t subscribe to
it what is that it’s not
our title warned you gay straight honest
the only nothing man nothing
being human couldn’t be nicer to survive
I got a son that crossed over he’s a
woman now I support him with all my
because he’s a good kid that’s all that
should matter at the end of the day I
gotta tell my son I mean my daughter and
now he was more man than I will ever be
because you came right out and wanted to
be what you want it to be conservative
issues we put a new movie view a new
deficit deficit a dokkan dokkan men
coming in you do something somebody you
don’t know that’s what life’s about what
else is there
sin is what else is there how much every
search taking everybody on their ass
you know as a brother or sister he would
be
[Music]
we will spread like wildfire Polly does
hideaway I do is all you do is hide away
all we do is chase the day how I do it’s
all we do is chase the day all I did was
fail today all I wanna be is white some
ways all I did was fail today all we do
all we do
[Music]
[Applause]
Wow always it’s me right in the field to
start off I’d like to tell you a little
bit about my presence on this stage came
about I’ve always been wanting to take
any issue regarding environmental
injustice very personally and go on and
my friends about how ruining precious
nature either agreeing selfishness drive
for wealth and the list goes on and on
however on this one Saturday night I
decided to take it a little bit further
with my complaints about the human race
yes I know it all sounds very dramatic
and naive but I was captured by the
moment I sucked into the belief that
there’s really no hope for relatively
just world I use the words were defect
in nature and our presence only leads to
negativity and that’s about when my
friend finally stopped me and said well
you know what you sound crazy to me but
it makes sense
however I’ve got one question for you
what are you going to do about it
because it sounds like you’ve chosen to
simply complain and that’s also what he
said well you should really do a TED
talk and Here I am today I’m going to
assume that most people in this room
would agree that the youth is the future
of our world and most them and more
importantly that their education
dictates that future we spend about
eight hours or one third of a full day
at school with your ATTC for eight hours
which is eight more hours left on ID
which is usually spent doing even more
score considering we dictate so much
time to school it’s inevitable that
school plays an immensely powerful role
in shaping a young mind sure that they
will strive for school has the potential
to do much more than just improve or
math or writing skills which is why I
believe that most educational systems do
not take advantage of their influence
over the youth I think this realization
after closely listening to a
conversation that my uncle was having
with a passing refugee
in Lebanon she spoke about how
Palestinians have very limited rights in
their own countries as well as any other
country they may be seeking refugee
making them somewhat stateless the
conversation made me realize how
uninformed I was about the past Syrian
crisis and not just about the Bosnian
crisis but about global issues in
general the information she shared had
struck me so hard on an emotional level
that I wanted to speak about it
understand the issue more profoundly and
more and most importantly why despite
constantly being in an educational
environment this was the very first time
I sincerely understood one of her
generations most pressing issues a
refugee crisis as a student I believe
that understanding such an issue is just
as important as understanding any class
I take this got me questioning why do
not explicitly learn about such pressing
issues in our everyday lives in high
school now I know some of you may be
thinking what a lazy student just read
the news but reading an article about
how missiles affected country by
yourself and discussing such an article
in class have two different effects one
is just a usual and the other is a young
mind in consultation the conversation
taught me two things
I’d like to emphasize on the first being
that well-informed people care yes I
know this may sound like a very simple
concept but applying this very simple
concept could very well change the way
young minds you the world yes
most students they can glimpse at the
headlines and read the news but doing
just that isn’t going to make the youth
feel an obligation to take action it
isn’t going to spark the fire that makes
a young and striving mind want to make a
purposeful change it really is vital
that young students are thirty educated
about such pressing issues because that
15 minute conversation had a completely
to effect on me a sixteen-year-old high
schooler than he did on my four-year-old
uncle which brings me to my second point
the second concept that became very
clear to me is that a teenager’s
emotions can serve as the driving force
to do good yes of course my uncle took
the issue at heart but at the end of the
day his business was still supervising
the Motorola he earns a living from to
me on the other hand there was a
motivation to want to find meaning in
what I do and use my privileges to help
someone other than myself and my case
isn’t in equality an interesting fact
that helped reinforce my talk is that
teenagers used the amygdala the
emotional part of the brain when making
a rational decision what in adults the
frontal lobes the part of the brain
that’s used for impulse control is more
stimulated by making a rational decision
to put it simply teenagers are
biologically wired to be emotionally
driven now it’s important to remember
that such powerful emotions at such a
young age can be used negatively hay can
make you pessimistic wealth can make you
envious and anger can lead to violence
however this also means that teenagers
can love more sympathize or and feel
more concerned this is why school should
pay more into emotional manipulation to
make students care and I know this
sounds very cliche work towards a better
world now that I have your attention I’d
like to clarify that by emotional
manipulation I’m referring to
emotionally engaging students through
education for positive cause just like
how that video I shared in Hulme an
emotionally affected you it schools
implemented courses that teach young
students about crucial modern issues
such as poverty war crimes and illegal
forms of labor then the emotional
engagement would lead to the investments
of time and attention because
well-informed people care this will push
students to pursue meaningful careers
to make a positive contribution to
society a majority of students I know
graduate from high school saying they
want to study international business
they want to be an investment banker and
when asked why they aren’t quite sure
why and sauce I already hear someone say
is because I want to work towards
tackling the issue of extreme poverty in
the Congo or it’s because I want to work
towards putting an end to modern slavery
unfortunately this makes it very much
tonight the main drive first student is
well now don’t get me wrong there’s
nothing wrong with being a businessman
or an economist however what could be
transformed is the intentions behind the
career for example a close friend of
mine that I’ve known since middle school
has always wanted to study
entrepreneurship and his drive was being
wealthy
however he recently had a change of
heart after being exposed to the
benefits of social entrepreneurship he
realized that he finds more meaning in
social entrepreneurship a career that
allows YouTube business and
entrepreneurship to implement and find
solutions
social cultural and environmental issues
that’s a perfect example meaningful
career is to me a career in which
students find meaning in something other
than just soft game because this set of
soft game is what leads to our
immorality and corruption a corrupt
government is only crops because their
main focuses on their soft game and not
the benefit of the people businesses
that contribute to child labor only do
so because their sole focus is on the
world and soft game the wicked use of a
child labor would be the least of their
concern schools need to work more
towards exposing students to the harsh
realities of the cruel and nasty world
that we’ve created because otherwise the
future generation will not be concerned
they simply won’t care and why this is
because of their lack of exposure to the
realities behind humanity’s criminality
how can we ever expect to solve the
issue of mass panic if the youth isn’t
30 educated about the whites whys and
how’s of its present the answer is we
can’t the answer is we can’t because I
can remember two or three times that
I’ve ever heard a teacher speaks to me
about such pressing issues in class and
even when they do it’s not done
explicitly if done explicitly this would
promote an environment in which students
aren’t talking about the funny meme of
some guy who fell for clear but about
why the 4.8 million Syrian refugees in
need of aid because their country is
being used as battlefield I’d like to
end with a quote by Jane Goodall who is
a scientist that worked with japansese
in eastern Congo the Koch says only if
we understand can we care only if we
care we help and only if we help solve
ABC
remember we can’t ever expect the future
generation to care if the orange will
inform we’re born pure and loving but
society corrupts us and we must be
reminded to stay pure and loving thank
you
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