“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” This may be a Jewish proverb, although its provenance is uncertain. In any case, it’s a reminder that while young people still have much to learn, they also know things their elders don’t. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Our Children are Born in Another Time”
Here is a proverb that I was told comes from the Jewish tradition.
I haven’t been able to track it down, but I like it in any case.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
And you know what that reminds me of? This idea that came about over the last 20 years or so that young people today may have more in common with young people in other countries than they do with their own parents, because that’s how fast culture is moving.
Oh, now spin that out for me.
What do you mean?
Imagine you have at home a 16-year-old who is connected to the Internet and they’re on social media and they use a wide variety of international websites and software that anyone can use around the world, you know, assuming you have the money for it.
And their behavior and the things that they’re interested in may have more in common with, say, another 16-year-old in Seoul or Berlin or Mumbai because they’re doing exactly the same things as each other, whereas these may not be things that their parents are doing at all.
Right. It’s sort of digital cross-pollination, right?
Yeah. Culture is removed from place more and more.
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