It is not too much to say that young people are the promising leaders of today's technology-driven society. As it is, the young are usually more familiar with a variety of technology than the old. Therefore, I am against the idea that young cannot teach older people anything because today's young people tend to have abundant knowledge about new technology. Additionally, the younger generations can teach the older generation the benefits of proper nutrition.
Today's society is highly technology-driven, and it is not easy to survive in this society without wealthy knowledge of technology. Because technology has continuously been developing, the younger a generation is, the more familiar with new technology. Therefore, older people could be instructed by younger people. For example, one in third of people aged over60 are computer-illiterate; however, computer-illiteracy is less than 2% among people aged under30. What's more, nowadays, in computer academies, most teachers are young and students are mostly older than teachers. As it is, today's old people learn from younger people.
According to human health studies, life span has been remarkably increasing for the past decades. This can be contributed to the fact that today's young individuals are more conscious about their health. This is because in the past, people were busy worrying about getting killed due to ongoing wars, and most of them could not afford to eat food, so they ate cheap but filling food, which is usually harmful to human body. Additionally, some old people still possess the habit, which they developed during the wars, of eating any satisfying food. However, today's young people generally know how to maintain their health, for example, they recognize that it is essential to consume a sufficient amount of vitamins or minerals in order to stay healthy. Therefore, the young can teach the old how to stay in shape and eat food that helps in improving physical health.
The young people tend to possess more extensive knowledge about technology than old people and generally know more about staying in shape; thus, the old people can learn these elements from them. In my Asian culture, there is one famous maxim "when an elder says something, it is the rule." However, I think the world is changing and is rotating focusing around the young; therefore, young can teach the old. |