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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:29 am
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Adults who claim that all teenagers are stupid/incapable of intellectual thoughts, etc, are actually insulting themselves more. A persons formative experience, before they far through their teens, usually make up the basis of the way they view the world. And who do they learn from? The adults who are nurturing them. If a teenager shows no interest in 'deep thought', is it not, thus, logical to wonder whether their parents have encouraged them to do so? Let's face it, if you hear your parents, or other adults, talking about important issues (or just acting in a vaguely intellectual manner) a lot, wouldn't you have a greater likelihood of doing the same yourself. I realise this is not always the case, and there are plenty of other things which affect the way you think (someone else mentioned advertisements - I swear those things are responsile for a ast number of lost braincells!). But the number of stupid, stereotypical teenagers is equaly matched by adults who exhibit identical behaviour. E.g. A friend of mine worked in the City (London finance) for a time, got about 4 hours slee a night, did stressful work, then went out to parties pretty much every single night. For adults, this is called 'making-contacts'. For teenagers, it's a sign that society is going down hill and the apocolyse is a-coming.
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:20 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:47 am
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Has anyone ever said this to you? I'm a teenager in England, I like to think about things like reasons for life, the universe, and whatever hot debates I’ve seen around (racial issues, abortion etc.), unfortunately, most of this takes place in my RE lessons.
My RE teacher likes to yell at me for it, and once i replied 'I’m thinking of a reason for being' and she actually said to me 'you teenagers are incapable of deep thought!', now, i will let that she may have been being sarcastic (I can't tell if somebody is being sarcastic or not, and I get confused if metaphors are used, too) but it still offended me that she fitted the entire class under that stereotype.
Why do you think alot of people today think like this about teens?
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:09 am
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Volucris Ego Here's a story: One class aquaitance was super lazy when it comes to school work. Since his grade in English class was really lacking, the teacher let him to a paper. Little did the teacher know, the kid was a super good writer. He loved writing, but he usally half-assed his work just so his grade won't suffer too badly. On this essay assignment, since it was his last chance and his grade depended on it, he actually spent time on it and wrote a super good paper! When he gave it to the teacher, she read it over and gave the paper a ZERO! She said it was greatly done and he couldn't have done this, he probably got it off of the internet or had a lot of help. He told the teacher, and us, many times that HE wrote it, and him alone. She still didn't believe him. DX Did he ever beat the s**t out of her, or at least take it to the principal/school board? Or at least search the web for his story to prove that it wasn't there?
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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 7:57 am
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Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 8:35 pm
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:47 pm
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:55 pm
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XxCubeZxX Has anyone ever said this to you? I'm a teenager in England, I like to think about things like reasons for life, the universe, and whatever hot debates I’ve seen around (racial issues, abortion etc.), unfortunately, most of this takes place in my RE lessons. My RE teacher likes to yell at me for it, and once i replied 'I’m thinking of a reason for being' and she actually said to me 'you teenagers are incapable of deep thought!', now, i will let that she may have been being sarcastic (I can't tell if somebody is being sarcastic or not, and I get confused if metaphors are used, too) but it still offended me that she fitted the entire class under that stereotype. Why do you think alot of people today think like this about teens?
I think every generation has believed this or something similar about teens. Scientists have found that our frontal lobe (which governs logic and reason) is not fully developed until our early twenties. (If this is true, then I'm screwed. I'm 22!)
Compared to a forty-year-old, a 16 year-old really isn't that mature, but it doesn't mean they are incapable of deep thought. Teens are less capable of expressing "deep thought", whatever that means. Part of it is that as you get older, your world gets bigger. You are exposed to more, you've had more time to learn and consider things, evaluate and judge the world around us, etc.
To say that a teen is "incapable" of these things is ludicrous. Anyone who ca still remember their teen years and what it was like should know this. At age five I was considering the meaning of eternity and the size of space (it made my head hurt). Our understanding of philosophy, logic, science religion, what have you... these deepen and mature with time and consideration, and vary within age groups depending on the individual. Teens and children are not stupid, and it would be unwise for any adult to forget this.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:39 am
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