Re: Some Laws [OT]

"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:e4330f45.0410040500.2fed8ac3_at_posting.google.com...
> "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:<JF%7d.301930$mD.108907@attbi_s02>...
>
> > What evidence
> > do we have that people of our parents' generation just loved theory?
> > It is very easy to believe that things are heading downhill and that
> > each generation is inferior to the previous; Plato thought so.
> > But in fact, the reverese is true.
>
> This is not so simple. It is clear that the average education of my
> generation is a lot better than the average education of my parents'
> generation, but the things are not so clear if we consider only the
> elites of my parent's generation and the elites of my generation.
>
> The most part of the progress is made by the elites, and not by the
> average people.

Heh heh. This is true, but not politically correct to say in America.

> I can speak about my country and my enviroment only, and there are
> many factors.
>
> For instance some decades ago the universities were a lot more elitist
> than now.
>
> The level of sacrifice that my generation is willing to tolerate is a
> lot lower than the one of my parents' and grand parents' generations,
> but higher than the one of the next generations.
>
> The sense of the "duty" is very different in my generation and in my
> grand parents's generation. We are extremely hedonist compared to
> them.
>
> The social and economical motivations for having a very good education
> are less important than in the past. Any no-brainer salesmen often
> earns more than a good scientist, and has a better social
> consideration.
>
> My generation had a lot more alternatives to the reading and the
> studying than my grand parent's generation, but also a lot more
> opportunities to access to good quality learning sources.

Nice post.

Marshall Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 17:10:16 CEST