Mia Mottley

And at the same time, I've been arguing that you need to expose our kids to risk because what do children want to play adults?

They start at young and they can get away with it because they go and take their mother's makeup and their mother's shoes and whatever and they play in house.

By the time they become teenagers, it gets a little more dangerous.

They want to smoke.

They want to ride a bike.

They want to have sex.

They want to do other things.

And I'm saying to them, we teach children how to cross the road as little kids safely.

How do we prepare them to manage other risk as they get older?

And therefore the educational transformation that we need is not to give people knowledge because facts for the most part, although you have to be discerning, are found there in technology.

What we need are the values and attitudes, the skills,

the commitment to excellence in whatever you do and empathy, because you have to care about people.

If not, you're gonna be in trouble.

And you have to do the best that you can do in everything that you do, however little, however small, however large.

and you have to show them how they develop and mature, which is what we don't talk enough about, the social and emotional learning targets.

What do you expect a child to say or do at seven, at 10, at 12, at 14, at 16?

When the hormones start to get in the way, how do you deal with that?

Recognizing that relationships with parents are not always the easiest during that period of time, so how do you create

a pressure cooker type thing where the steam can be taken off and the child just doesn't explode into some kind of awful situation.

So these are the things that matter.