{"id":1594,"date":"2014-01-20T01:27:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:37:21","slug":"kids-today-or-is-it-just-us-old-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/01\/kids-today-or-is-it-just-us-old-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Today! or is It Just Us Old Folks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kids today can find any fact in the world in a minute, but they don&#8217;t. Is it that they don&#8217;t appreciate this gift or is it that old folks are putting yet another impossible-to-achieve standard on them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We live in a world where any fact in the world is available in one minute:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to spell unnecessarily<\/li>\n<li>What the stars in the PRC flag mean<\/li>\n<li>How to say &#8220;blue&#8221; in German<\/li>\n<li>What are the dimensions of a .45 ACP cartridge<\/li>\n<li>What is a flying buttress<\/li>\n<li>What is the integral of sin and what does that mean<\/li>\n<li>and so on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kids today, let&#8217;s limit that to those age 20 through 30, have this wonderful gift. Yet, in my experience, they don&#8217;t realize they have this gift. Why, in my day (here it comes), we had to dig through big dictionaries and encyclopedias and libraries for hours with a hope of perhaps finding answers to these and all other factual questions. Kids today, don&#8217;t use the tools they have to find answers.<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with them?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One answer is that they do not realize they have these tools.<\/li>\n<li>Another answer is that they do not appreciate the value of these tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is another answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is nothing wrong with Kids today. It is us old folks who are putting an impossible-to-achieve expectation on Kids today. We feel that these kids should have all the facts correct all the time and do wonderful things with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps us old folks need to relax a bit. Kids today <em>will<\/em> do wonderful things just as we amazed old folks a generation or two ago by doing wonderful things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Kids today can find any fact in the world in a minute, but they don&#8217;t. Is it that they don&#8217;t appreciate this gift or is it that old folks are putting yet another impossible-to-achieve standard on them? We live in a world where any fact in the world is available in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[154,139],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-culture","tag-communication","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}