cooperation and listening is the key!

A response to Of Youth and Age by Sir Francis Bacon

(http://www.literaturepage.com/read/francis-bacon-essays-86.html)

Central argument: Some times things can only be achieved in youth rather than Age. (Do not underestimate youths.)

In Sir Francis Bacon’s eassay, Of Youth and Age, he mentions how people sometimes underestimate the youths just because they are at a younger age. Just like Bacon wrote, “A man that is young, maybe old in hours.” This shows that knowledge does not only exist in older people just because they were on Earth for a longer time. This idealism can be express through my personal experience, a TED talk, and the emerging new generations that have yet to teach the world of new things.

Throughout my experiences in one of my classes, the so call adult does not have the power to control the classroom. This is mainly because the teacher was underestimating our ability to think and speak critically just because we are a child compare to them, age wise. At this particular time, it the class started as how it would normally start. However, the teacher felt the need of expressing her feelings about her students in the class that they do not care enough on the subject matter to be studying them and that we, students are too innocent of the real world to actually are aware and care enough for the issues that are going on and affecting the world. This caused one of the student in that class stood up against her by saying, “many of us here comes from many different countries that are CURRENTLY facing political, economical, and environmental issues. We are not innocent little children who are living in this ‘perfect world.’ We know what is going on in the world and we care about it to have signed up for this class.” This caused the class to lose respects to the teacher and this is all due to the teacher’s underestimating youth’s knowledge on the world. 

TED talks are talks given that are later posted on the internet for audience from all around the world to see. There was a talk that was given by a girl about how adults should listen to children more and that they should be open to the child’s idea. Anyone who heard that talk would have agreed with her, unless you are in denial that a kid’s talk makes more sense than yours does. This already shows that not only adults can give presentations and advices, even kids can. And in this case, her talk went all over the world. 

With the new generation of technology constantly emerging, obviously the youth who have always been around it would have pier knowledge about it than an elder person who is still adapting to it. If you think about it, it is the youth who are coming up with new technologies and global development everyday not an old scientist. Furthermore, a newer generation has newer ideas and opinions on things. For example, the new generation has never experience things that the elders did, which could cause opinions and idea to differ such as wars, government, and natural disasters. It is best if the new generations are being heard as well as the elders.

Youth or age, it does not matter. The only thing that matters is that both parties listen and share ideas within each other into solving issues and developing the world into the perfect place to be at. Cooperation is the key!