Wednesday, November 30, 2011

“Young People Teach Older Ones”

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? There is nothing that young people can teach older people. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
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I totally disagree with the statement that there is nothing that young people cannot teach the older ones. I shall elaborate my viewpoint in the following paragraphs.

We are living in the new millennium, the most advanced technological era in history. One is confronted with a plethora of knowledge and information. While young people possess an ability to learn new concepts and absorb information faster and easier many older are unaware of new products or ideas. Those could be taught to the old by young.

The computer, for old people, has emerged as the first barrier and stigma. With a computer, one can work without paper and pencil, obtain useful searches on the Internet or make online purchases from ones home. However, many older people are not able to do these things since using a computer initially demands a little of knowledge and skill. However teaching our grandparents how to use a computer in order that they could discover many benefits and pleasures are a most pleasurable experience.

In addition to new technological products, ideas or concepts that have helped shape young people can be conveyed to old people. Many old people believe that health means the absence of disease. Yet many of us have realized that the notion of being healthy contains psychological, emotional and social health factors too rather than simply living without illness. Those scientific notions could be learned by old people from their children. The old must learn something new from youngsters in order to adjust to a modern lifestyle and become healthier.

Summing-up, in modern society it is the young who are at the forefront of the era and possess updated knowledge thereby young teach many new things to older ones.

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