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This professor has showed his students just what they are and is trying to figure out where they got these ideas. Notice his outstanding attempt to let them see just what they are saying.
There are eBooks copied from the 12th century that talk about those damn kids being selfish and wanting different things then their elders. Project Gutenburg has a number if you want to read them. This is as old as humanity itself, and some people who don't know anything about history seem to think it's brand new every decade. Sad really how people can't learn anything from the past.
Aw, go ahead and watch the video so you won't be showing all your lack of knowledge about what it there. I will help you out by telling you that the man asked his students to write a 10 minute essay about the subject and he learned a lot from it.
Maybe I could even help you out by telling you that although those kids sounded just like the OWS crowd this little thing was done before the Occupies took place.
Do you think you should continue to be misinformed and try so hard to misinform others with your deflection methods? I think you bury some really good stuff when you pull this trick.
This professor has showed his students just what they are and is trying to figure out where they got these ideas. Notice his outstanding attempt to let them see just what they are saying.
That's unreal. I wonder how many people actually believe the government should pay for their tuition, house down payment, give them a job, etc.? I've worked all of my life since I was 14 years old. I couldn't wait to get a job. My parents never questioned why I wanted to work - getting a job and working for what you wanted was expected. It never occurred to me that the government was supposed to give me anything.
My only disagreement with the professor is I don't think public schools are entirely to blame for the students' mindset. I blame the parents.
That's unreal. I wonder how many people actually believe the government should pay for their tuition, house down payment, give them a job, etc.? I've worked all of my life since I was 14 years old. I couldn't wait to get a job. My parents never questioned why I wanted to work - getting a job and working for what you wanted was expected. It never occurred to me that the government was supposed to give me anything.
My only disagreement with the professor is I don't think public schools are entirely to blame for the students' mindset. I blame the parents.
[insightful video, Roy...]
What a relief. Finally someone is willing to speak to the video. I don't worry about this all coming from public schools but I think that we older people missed this in school and our parents did too.
I didn't watch the video yet but I agree with the above. In fact, I would say the problem is 90% parents and 10% school.
I won't cross the words of the professor since he has dealt with those kids and others before them and might have a better knowledge of it all. I might go along with 50-50 though.
I wonder if Jack and thousands of other professors want to say what the REAL problem is: Parents... but FOX would never want to tell their viewers that it's their fault.
Too many young adults today just weren't raised with the skills to be self-sufficient adults. That's why they don't move out until their 30's, why they think they are automatically entitled to the same kind of life their parents have while somehow forgetting it took their parents 20-30 years of work to get there and why they throw a hissy fit whenever they don't get what they want.
Their parents never said NO when they had a tantrum in the store over a candy bar, hovered over them as they played under close supervision in a controlled environment and picked them up every time they fell instead of letting them get up on their own.
They got a wall full of "participant" trophies, were constantly told how wonderful and special they were, that they could do anything...be anything, never got a punishment more severe than a "time out" when they did bad and were otherwise sheltered from anything and everything even remotely negative.
And when they turn out to be 2 year olds in adult bodies who can't function in the real world we blame Public School and Obama!
You know your'e old when you start saying crap like "these damn kids nowadays, when I was a kid....."
Thank God for "old." Many folks are wiser when they are older. It is mostly "the old" that will save this nation "as founded."
I'm in my mid-fifties and dang glad I lived it up on the way and that I'm as experienced and blessed with the wisdom and discernment that I do have.
Yes, on the memories of "when I was a kid." Ahh, in Austin, Texas and all was right with the world. In fact, back then it actually was.
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