Memory surprises
Check out this story: Girl awarded for saving people with geography knowledge.
This points out that what we teach kids in school really is important. Maybe Tilly looked like she was spacing out that day, and maybe she doesn't even like geography class that much if you ask her, but something in that video stuck with her. It mattered that her teacher showed the video and talked about what was going on. (It also mattered that she stuck with her convictions and didn't let other people tell her to stop being "hysterical").
You never know what's going to lodge in people's brains or what will pop up out of their memory later. That means everything we say is important. Everything is worth doing carefully, not casually or mindlessly.
Tilly Smith, 11, from Oxshott, Surrey, spotted key signs in the sea in Phuket, Thailand, that she remembered from a geography lesson two weeks earlier.
She persuaded her parents, seven-year-old sister and other tourists to flee their beach and hotel.
When the tsunami struck, no-one was killed on that beach. Tilly received an award from the Marine Society.
This points out that what we teach kids in school really is important. Maybe Tilly looked like she was spacing out that day, and maybe she doesn't even like geography class that much if you ask her, but something in that video stuck with her. It mattered that her teacher showed the video and talked about what was going on. (It also mattered that she stuck with her convictions and didn't let other people tell her to stop being "hysterical").
You never know what's going to lodge in people's brains or what will pop up out of their memory later. That means everything we say is important. Everything is worth doing carefully, not casually or mindlessly.
