Opinions vary regarding whether people learn more from their peers than older than them. I disagree with the statement for the following two reasons. For one thing, older people have useful and practical skill and know-how peers do not have. Moreover, older people are able to give helpful advice for younger.
First of all, elders have more useful and pragmatic skills and know-how than peers. In general, peers have much in common as they are at the same young age. However, peers are likely to commit the same mistakes due to their lack of experience. Therefore, elders inform younger of useful skill and practical know-how that help them to perform their workload easily. For example, we tend to feel despair at work and school when they begin to work and study. As they have frequently contact with their peers, they are effort to seek some advice from their peers, but their peers also have little experience, which do not help us. In contrast, elders are willingly to help us because they already experienced that we are having difficulty in. Older people will inform us of useful information and know-how such as method to write reports if we want to, which allow us to solve many problems at work and school.
In addition, younger people are able to seek some advices to elders. Some people say that peers can give us more helpful advice than elders because of feeling united with each other. However, to give useful advices, people need to be informed of a variety of aspect of in life. In this sense, elders are mature enough to provide us with good advices rather than our peers. According to a study conducted by Korean National Research Center, 64 percent of surveyed university students answered that during their high school years, they made decision about their major by seeking some advices from older people such as their parents and teacher. Based on the study, the elders informed them of what they are good at and how majors are promising, which have a great affect on deciding their major. They argue that if they had not sought advices from elders, they might have regretted their decision.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that young people should be given useful skill and know-how that help us to perform well at work and school and helpful advices by elders. |