[Republican1795.]

This just shows how the younger generation are not taught.

[MasterGunner01]

I was working late one night. As I was getting ready to go home, I chanced to have a conversation with a former employee who'd been hired back as a temp to help us out of a backlog.

She said, “Mind if I ask you a question?”

I said, “No, go ahead.”

“When we've talked in the past, you say things in such a ‘matter of fact’ voice and assumed I knew about them. Often, I've never even heard of these things. Where’d you learn all this?”

I was dumbfounded, but I said: “I've always been a reader and I've always been fascinated with history. Who are we as people? What kinds of things did other people do that we can learn from? Why are things today the way they are — cause and effect. Learning never stops. Just because you've graduated from school means your learning about life continues until you breathe your last. We live in a marvelous age of information, but there's a downside. The sum total of all human knowledge doubles every ten years! Think about that — then realize how much you have to learn about the world you live in.”

[bt_dooftlook]

This may be a minor quibble, but IMHO, teachers are not there to teach; they are there to help you learn.

To my mind, it is not that the younger generation is not taught, it is that the teachers, to a large extent, fail to inspire a love of learning.

While the end result is the same, I think the responsibility for learning always is on the student, who, after all, must live with the consequences...