Three fingers and a thumb?

[mrswdk]

Not if they're making generalizations that they aren't backing up, no.

[PLAYER57832]

No, says just about any major university today, a good many corporate recruiters... a lot of people who deal with younger adults who, even when quite smart, just seem to think a few sentences is enough to understand any subject

Should be easy enough for you to provide some references and prove that you've actually done some background research on this issue then.

LOL Google it. Its been discussed at one point or another in just about every news outlet, multiple publications.

[PLAYER57832]

Or is this the nature of every younger generation to imagine their superficial understanding/knowledge not yet broadened by life experience is much deeper than it really is.Certainly true in my case,I cringe when I remember how sure I was as a young adult with black and white answers for problems that were more complex and nuanced than I could grasp.

Agreed that this happens. Its part of why younger individuals have throughout history been more likely to be extreme. The older one gets, the more you realize that most things are not black and white, but heavily shaded with grey.

Still, this new phenomena is something else. A lot of younger folks, for example say they get "most of their news" from Twitter. Twitter, by its very nature, means you only get the most superficial idea of any real news.

Its rather ironic. In that past, younger people often had more limited access to information. Today, they have access to almost anything, but too often cannot be bothered.

[Symmetry]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

[PLAYER57832]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Saw a similar quote that, i believe, came Shakespeare.

[Symmetry]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Saw a similar quote that, i believe, came Shakespeare.

That was Plato, I think. Point is that kids will be kids. Frustrating as that is.

[thegreekdog]

Crossing one's legs was bad? Freaking Greeks.

[chang50]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Saw a similar quote that, i believe, came Shakespeare.

That was Plato, I think. Point is that kids will be kids. Frustrating as that is.

Didn't they find some heiroglyphics complaining about the younger generation?

[mrswdk]

A lot of younger folks, for example say they get "most of their news" from Twitter.

I've never met anyone who gets their news from Twitter.

[notyou2]

A lot of younger folks, for example say they get "most of their news" from Twitter.

I've never met anyone who gets their news from Twitter.

Tell me miss. Do they have twitter in China?

[AslanTheKing]

leave the kids alone
or say it prciously
dont buy them a mobile phone in the age of 6
and ipad with 7
and dont let them use a computer util they reach the age of 16
dont let them sleep on weekends at friends ( where the parents are drugaddicts or prostitutes)
just take care of them
the oldfashioned way
teach them morals
done in the old ways

[mrswdk]

A lot of younger folks, for example say they get "most of their news" from Twitter.

I've never met anyone who gets their news from Twitter.

Tell me miss. Do they have twitter in China?

They have Weibo, which is the same thing.

[Lootifer]

Twitter is great for news... like seriously.

I dont use it a lot, but you can pretty easily get a better news service from a series of twitter feeds than your local news channel.

[saxitoxin]

today's generation, despite access to all kinds of information, is less inclined even than prior generations to take the time to research, listen and truly understand complex points

Google it.

I, literally, LOL'ed

[AslanTheKing]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Saw a similar quote that, i believe, came Shakespeare.

i loved that one, it made me laugh,
Saw a similar quote that, i believe, came Shakespeare.

maybe they said the same things about kids 100 years ago,
so its all repeating itselve
maybe our parents thought the same about us,

reminds me of the phrase
everything was better in the past
even the future
lol