If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'

Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.