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[Alexandru Chivu]

Every time I meet a kid, I realize how incredibly dumb most are and I lose hope for the next generation xD

http://www.bubblews....on-of-teenagers

[Hrck]

Not all are dumb, aslong as u keep them away from the computer and tell them to go play outside with their friends

[Marinos98]

hahaha lol

[Alexandru Chivu]

It's true though.

Edited by Alexandru Chivu, 12 August 2013 - 01:07 PM.

[Alexandru Chivu]

Not all are dumb, aslong as u keep them away from the computer and tell them to go play outside with their friends

I didn't say they're all dumb, but most of them are. And it's not just that. Like you can actually learn stuff from the computer, not all bad. They just don't. 

[Bananeitor]

True!

[Sexagenarian]

Conversely your parents must seem much more intelligent, your grand parents even more so, ...

 

 Which means at my age I must seem like an intellectual god to you youngsters

[invaluable]

No hope for human beings as a whole. 

[Alexandru Chivu]

Conversely your parents must seem much more intelligent, your grand parents even more so, ...

 

 Which means at my age I must seem like an intellectual god to you youngsters

It's not about the age difference. I'm not comparing myself with them, I'm comparing how I and a lot of people from my generation were at THEIR age...

[Xenocryst]

LOL nice read, thank you! I am still keeping my optimism overall. Life will always find a way!

[Dimow Brando]

Sadly, this is true.

[Gravesent]

Every old generation will look down on the younger generation. Most kids (off any generation) appear to be hopeless but they're not.

 

The author of the article states that kids these days consider Angry Birds to be a "real" game and even say that it's too hard, while remembering that when he was their age he was playing Age of Empires II. Well  think harder, yeah some of us were playing really hard strategy games. But most kids weren't playing anything. I guarantee that there are more kids today playing Starcraft then there were when I was 14.

 

Complaining about life very early on is also not dumb. Kids are exposed to more information these days. They want to grow up faster and life begins to suck faster. They become teens at a younger age. Just like we became preoccupied with relationships and the hard parts of life earlier then our parents. Good news is that they're going to grow up faster then us.

 

And they're not stupid. Not by a long shot. Sure they don't learn well in school but that's just because they figured out that school isn't going to guarantee a career. We didn't know that, teachers told us to learn so we did. We were so worried about grades when in fact they don't really matter in real life. Most of us went through the entire education system without figuring this out.

 

Kids today know that school is inadequate and doesn't prepare you for life. So they don't work hard at it. Why would they when they see people who didn't even finish high-school driving bentleys next to doctors and engineers who can barely afford an old cheap car (at least in Romania this is the sad truth).

 

I don't think kids are failing today. We're failing at providing them with the education that they know they need. They're just smarter then we ever were at their age and some of us are jealous.

[Prinz von Panzer]

Hey im new

[Gravesent]

Hey im new

I take back everything I said D:

[ChewChewShoe]

If I am allowed to spread my royal seed to at least 100.000 women around the world, there shall be hope, my friend.