Born in 1997 or 1998 and upwards are generation Z! Those born in 1996 would be 27.. hopefully a few years makes a difference! Children of boomers are not that bad, but the children of millennials.. omg!! I digress! Great post!
Socrates would be banned if he was alive today. Still, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, I'm thankful the Socratic Method did spread for a couple thousand years.
Hello Allen, I agree with you wholeheartedly but aren’t adults of 25 and 26 Generation Z? I do have a bit of hope for this group as it includes my two young adults and they differ from your characterisations of imbeciles. I’m a teacher and am well aware of what you speak of. I’m having my last hurrah with my students this year and pursuing my other passion… painting! It’s way too hard on my heart, and mind. I have trouble expressing to others the devastating changes I’ve seen in educational practices and in the minds of children themselves. It’s so frustrating! I said I’d quit when my heart is no longer in it. I’ve offered to homeschool my grandchildren when I’m blessed with some! Educating children today is worse than pulling teeth. And these so called imbecile’s children are even worse because they’ve grown up attached to technology. It’s a bloody disaster! I’m focusing now on my art and my family!
Surely it must be the previous generation who parented them and educated them?
It didn't happen spontaneously.
If you don't want your descendants to be part of the "ignorant, uneducated imbeciles" then keep your marriage together, throw out the TV and homeschool.
I am just at your cut off age between X and boomer. I have 8 children and so far 7 grandchildren. My children are very different to their peers. The most obvious difference in their upbringing is that they were homeschooled and their parents are not divorced. So is it nature or nurture? I really don't believe their parents were genetic übermenschlich.
Home schooling is the way to preserve and control the cultural input into the next generation.
There is much generational trauma in many families. I do agree that as adults we should not blame our past and we should rise up above our past. So many people these days don't have the foundational understanding of life to start building a strong base. They really don't know which way is up.
Excellent article!
CAN YOU FEEL THE EARTH SHAKING?
Normals Are Stepping Up All Over the World. Everything is Shifting. The Evidence follows:
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/can-you-feel-the-earth-shaking
Born in 1997 or 1998 and upwards are generation Z! Those born in 1996 would be 27.. hopefully a few years makes a difference! Children of boomers are not that bad, but the children of millennials.. omg!! I digress! Great post!
Socrates would be banned if he was alive today. Still, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, I'm thankful the Socratic Method did spread for a couple thousand years.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/if-he-were-alive-today-socrates-would?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Hello Allen, I agree with you wholeheartedly but aren’t adults of 25 and 26 Generation Z? I do have a bit of hope for this group as it includes my two young adults and they differ from your characterisations of imbeciles. I’m a teacher and am well aware of what you speak of. I’m having my last hurrah with my students this year and pursuing my other passion… painting! It’s way too hard on my heart, and mind. I have trouble expressing to others the devastating changes I’ve seen in educational practices and in the minds of children themselves. It’s so frustrating! I said I’d quit when my heart is no longer in it. I’ve offered to homeschool my grandchildren when I’m blessed with some! Educating children today is worse than pulling teeth. And these so called imbecile’s children are even worse because they’ve grown up attached to technology. It’s a bloody disaster! I’m focusing now on my art and my family!
Interesting… I have two works of fiction that that I was inspired to write after reading Daniel Defoe’s “Journal of the Plaque Years”.
“An Excerpt from the 2nd Dark Age of Man”
Here they are: https://open.substack.com/pub/lawrencebutts/p/an-excerpt-from-the-second-dark-age?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
https://open.substack.com/pub/lawrencebutts/p/an-excerpt-from-the-second-dark-age-009?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Haha, but who is to blame?
Surely it must be the previous generation who parented them and educated them?
It didn't happen spontaneously.
If you don't want your descendants to be part of the "ignorant, uneducated imbeciles" then keep your marriage together, throw out the TV and homeschool.
Alex - these people are 25 to 56 years of age - they are ADULTS!
They cannot continue to blame their parents for their incredible incompetence.
They are grownups, or should be.
No, the problem is not with their parents.
The problem is with their woke culture - it is a culture of willful stupidity - a culture of imbeciles.
I am just at your cut off age between X and boomer. I have 8 children and so far 7 grandchildren. My children are very different to their peers. The most obvious difference in their upbringing is that they were homeschooled and their parents are not divorced. So is it nature or nurture? I really don't believe their parents were genetic übermenschlich.
Home schooling is the way to preserve and control the cultural input into the next generation.
Strong families make strong nations.
I don't disagree that public schools are dumbing-down our kids - I support and congratulate you on your achievements with your family.
There is much generational trauma in many families. I do agree that as adults we should not blame our past and we should rise up above our past. So many people these days don't have the foundational understanding of life to start building a strong base. They really don't know which way is up.