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Firstly, we believe that teenagers should learn from adults because they have gone through much more hardship than teenagers in the past, and would have to overcome the countless obstacles. We also believe that experience comes with age, and having gone through past life experiences and also through the process of coping with the hardship that they faced, adults would have had a fruitful learning experience, by learning from mistakes made for example,and therefore would be able to give advice to teenagers on how to think of solutions effectively. Why do we say that adults had a tougher life in the past than teenagers nowadays? In the past, around the 1960s, there wasn’t much technology. There weren’t computers then, and researching for information or communicating required manual work. Some of the adults now have also gone through World War II, and through the experience, adults might have also learnt that they should treasure their loved ones and also their personal property and not take them for granted. We are not saying that teenagers should go through the war itself just to learn from it, we are saying that since some adults have gone through the war, they would be able to tell their stories to teenagers and let them learn from it. We certainly believe that teenagers should learn from them, as some teenagers these days do take their parents for granted and do not treasure precious time with them.
Secondly, we believe that teenagers should learn from adults as they have much more knowledge and understand much more aspects of life in greater depth as compared to teenagers. Overtime, adults would have already learned many things from adults of their generation, whether this knowledge benefits their education or simply knowledge on how different activities should be carried out. As the current adults that they are now, they would be able to better understand certain topics or ways of doing certain things. For example, whom does a teenager look up to when learning about the knowledge and facts of this world? Obviously, if he/she wants to approach a qualified person to confirm the knowledge he would be gaining, he would approach a qualified adult, such as a teacher. This is also because a teacher is one who has learnt and knows much more. A teacher is also trained in the aspect of teaching, and most likely is able to answer any queries made. Of course, teenagers have to learn from teachers in school, but sometimes, do they really take in the information and apply them? Do they look at the positive aspects of teachers and learn good values from them? We beg to differ, though some teenagers do.The only logical way of allowing a teenager to learn new things is to approach an adult. Also, sometimes teenagers can be insensitive about certain issues which go on in their daily lives. They easily criticize and complain about such issues, without even bothering to make the effort to truly understand why or how these issues have arisen. Some may even resort to violence if the case worsens.This is when adults play a big role. They can make a difference in the way teenagers think and feel about certain issues by allowing them to look at different perspectives, as they can explain and allow us to change the way some of us teenagers react to certain issues and teach us to be less impulsive. This is because they are able to fully comprehend and be able to understand why things happen in a certain manner as they have more matured mindsets. Thus, this concludes the fact that teenagers should learn from adults because adults are basically more knowledgeable and are able to comprehend issues which constantly occur in this world more deeply than how teenagers do.
We believe that teenagers should learn from adults. Definitely, we are agreeing with teenagers learning from the positive aspects of adults. One would certainly not want to see the negatives of a teenager’s attitude or any other aspect arise from the learning from adults. Thus, we are referring to teenagers learning from both the positive and appropriate moral values, adults’ way of thinking and of their traditional methods of doing things. We are also referring to mentally matured adults, those of the Generation X, who are probably born between the early 1960s through the early 1980s. Adults could also refer to teachers and parents, who mostly display positive values to be good role models to the children. We are not saying that all teenagers are bad and have all the unwanted and negative mindsets, we are referring to teenagers in general. We are also not entirely saying that all adults are good and possess all the right attitudes, behaviours, and uphold all the right moral values. We all know that no one is perfect in this world. Humans make mistakes, and this is a normal phase in life. Therefore, we strongly support the fact that teenagers should learn from adults, positively.
-Annabelle and Joella (:
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