September12009
Brainstorm - Bad Student Writing? Not So Fast! - The Chronicle of Higher Education »
I’d go further. The problem of “control freaks” applies to generations as well as to individuals. Older generations never voluntarily let go. They embrace new ideas only grudgingly, and often won’t even try to understand the younger generation they themselves spawned. One of the many tragedies of existence is that the only species that’s equipped by nature to have back-and-forth conversations between generations resists such conversations with all its might.



