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29 Dec 2016, 3:54 pm

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Why do you think this?

Why am I frustrated? Because I see a lack of awareness of what can be gained by learning. I think this is a result of the new technology. It is so easy to do things, people begin to have an expectation of facility, in that learning can be quite hard sometimes, but it is valuable in addition to what is available in this information age.



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29 Dec 2016, 4:16 pm

My boss was one of those lost hippies. If I was a few years older I might have been his boss as the didn't start to turn things around until I entered the work force. Just as well, being boss isn't worth the extra money if you know how to build an investment portfolio.



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29 Dec 2016, 4:45 pm

Are Millennials the way they are because the previous generation (parents, teachers, and leaders) misguided them? I'm sure that's debatable. And how will the next generation be? There comes a point where a generation will be responsible for raising itself because the previous is incapable. The internet might become the better parent & teacher (in some cases it already has).


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29 Dec 2016, 5:16 pm

Every generation, in general, is in rebellion against the previous generation.



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29 Dec 2016, 5:36 pm

Every generation thinks the generation/s that are younger than them are stupid or ignorant, nothing new.



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29 Dec 2016, 5:48 pm

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The internet might become the better parent & teacher (in some cases it already has).

I look forward to the day when teachers are replaced by computers. Maybe there will be home schooling centers like daycares where someone supervises and the kids learn on the computer in smaller groups within their neighborhoods. They could call them "educational facilitators." The school system as it is now is creating more problems than solutions.



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29 Dec 2016, 5:52 pm

The internet definitely taught me more about sex and the female anatomy than school ever did, that's for sure. If schools are going to continue to preach abstinence as the only way to teach sex education, then maybe it's for the best if the internet takes over for some subjects.



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29 Dec 2016, 5:55 pm

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The internet definitely taught me more about sex and the female anatomy than school ever did, that's for sure. If schools are going to continue to preach abstinence as the only way to teach sex education, then maybe it's for the best if the internet takes over for some subjects.

It used to be National Geographic and stolen Playboys.



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29 Dec 2016, 8:07 pm

androbot01 wrote:
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The internet might become the better parent & teacher (in some cases it already has).

I look forward to the day when teachers are replaced by computers. Maybe there will be home schooling centers like daycares where someone supervises and the kids learn on the computer in smaller groups within their neighborhoods. They could call them "educational facilitators." The school system as it is now is creating more problems than solutions.


How are they going to learn how to deal with bosses in the working world?


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29 Dec 2016, 8:10 pm

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"Yippies" were hippies who were members of the "Youth International Party" (hence, "YIP-ies"). It was founded about 1967-1968.

One of their leaders was Abbie Hoffman.

I take them to somewhat satirical representatives of the hippie ideology. They tended to do things for shock value.

The name was also based on the fact that kids in the 1960s tended to say "yippee!! ! !" when they were happy about something.


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29 Dec 2016, 8:14 pm

androbot01 wrote:
Grammar Geek wrote:
The internet definitely taught me more about sex and the female anatomy than school ever did, that's for sure. If schools are going to continue to preach abstinence as the only way to teach sex education, then maybe it's for the best if the internet takes over for some subjects.

It used to be National Geographic and stolen Playboys.


Playboy? we read them for the articles :D


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29 Dec 2016, 8:19 pm

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29 Dec 2016, 11:32 pm

They have a point about the "boob tube." It gets steadily worse. One doesn't think the programming can get any worse but, year after year, it always does.



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31 Dec 2016, 4:56 pm

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The lack of critical thinking of this generation, which is demonstrated on WP all the time, kinda scares me. Everything seems to come down to individual expression which is a recipe for societal disaster.


Young people of every generation that ever existed lack critical thinking skills; it's a part of being young. Culture also plays a role by encouraging (or not encouraging) certain pursuits. If you spend enough time online, you'll see that plenty of older people are ignorant/immature/etc. as well, and moreso in some cases.

Difficult as it may be, the solution for me is to seek out people of my own maturity level and leave the youngsters to mature at their own pace. Maybe that'll help you as well.



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31 Dec 2016, 5:38 pm

androbot01 wrote:
Shahunshah wrote:
Why do you think this?

Why am I frustrated? Because I see a lack of awareness of what can be gained by learning. I think this is a result of the new technology. It is so easy to do things, people begin to have an expectation of facility, in that learning can be quite hard sometimes, but it is valuable in addition to what is available in this information age.
But sometimes our lives are so busy and we can't spend every minute of it trying to learn. What's more or less millennials do learn. Go to my school and many others and you will see that most people have at least some knowledge of social and political affairs. Remember the average teenager knows more about the solar system than a scholar 5 hundred years ago. This is an increase in knowledge that millennials have not a decrease.



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31 Dec 2016, 5:43 pm

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Remember the average teenager knows more about the solar system than a scholar 5 hundred years ago. This is an increase in knowledge that millennials have not a decrease.


Sure, if you compare contemporary youth to people who lived hundreds of years ago. I don't think that comparison is very relevant to androbot's point.