Contagious: Infecting teens with courage

Contagious...infection...sounds bad but really everything is contagious not just diseases but laughter, confidence, and passion. The speaker, Kiran Bir Sethi tells her story of how one teacher challenged her to challenge everything around her and how contagious this feeling was.
Challenging the system is something I know very well because of the studies that our English class has done. Reading the inspiring stories of people who stood up and challenged the system such as, "1984", "Little Brother", and "Fahrenheit 451". These books and the challenging of my English teacher, pushed me to look at things in a new way. Don't always trust everyone and protect the right that you are given.
"If the boundaries between school and life are blurred then children will go through a journey if aware, seeing the change, enable, where they can be changed, and then empower, to lead the change" Says speaker, Kiran Bir Sethi. This puts into words exactly what teens need to do to challenge themselves and the world around them and also to be consious of what is happening in the world around them.
Tying in my personal experience of challenging myself and others around me, people need to see the difference they can make on the world whether it is feeding under priveliged people of creating a new vaccine to stop the spread of viruses in a third world country, any thing is possible if you combine intrinsic motivation and Sethi's 3 requirements to change and challenge yourself and the world.
Challenging the system is not an easy thing, actually I have never done anything like it. Most of us have grown up in a world where challenging authority was not done period! Today people all over the world such Juliana Rotich, founder of Ushahidi, had challenged the media restriction crisis in Africa by creating fast and easy access information to those who need it most. The program has now been applied to many other parts of the world to inform people of information not provided by restricting governments.
Sethi says that in order for a child to change the world that child needs to experience the situation for his or her self and then change his or her mind set form " teacher told me to I am doing it" which is the "I can" mind set needed to accomplish these goals. Dan Pink might look at this and say it is intrinsic motivation driving these children to do well and try to change something, but I think that it is a combination of intrinsic motivation and how they are teaching the children to be more empathetic towards the world.