▶ Your Answer :
I
agree with the statement that people learn more from peers than those older
than them. Our peers are more likely to give us many lessons in that they are
much more close to us in daily lives and older persons usually have many ideas
that already passed for a long time.
To begin with,
the people who are more related to us in day life are our peers, not older
people. So we are able to learn the peers’ behaviors much easier than those of
older persons. We almost spend our day in the work place or school, not a
house. That means we are more exposed to our peers than older people. For
example, in my case, I was worried about dealing with new cell phone. That’s
because it was very hard to handle it. But my friends who already bought that
kind of phone helped me to be familiar with the phone. In addition, it is much easier
to learn from them because they are usually close to me.
Also, actually
many advices from older people are old thinking. There are many cases that
cannot fit the real life at all. The world is completely different from that
before even 50 years. So older people have many things which are useless or not
helpful at all in nowadays. For example, some older people make some reports
only by hand even if the work can be done with computers. In turn, this basic
task takes a lot of time.
In a nutshell, I
firmly believe that we can learn much more from our peers, not older people in
that friends are more so familiar to us to give some advices or lessons and
there are few things that can be applied to nowadays life from older people
advices. |