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by TJR
In general people of today are not prepared for tomorrows challenges. So, it stands to reason that the youth aren't either. As a people, we have lost touch with many things, and...read more
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The modern world is a place of ever increasing complexity, yet our culture is shifting toward a more ignorant population, less prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. The scie...read more
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by Scott Hayden
I'm teaching in China and I can tell you the people I meet, especially teenagers and young adults do not seem prepared or even willing to acknowledge the deterioration of the en...read more
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The youth of today are not ready for the challenges of tomorrow. However, the fault is not theirs alone. The way adults prepare our youth for the future is suspect at best. T...read more
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by Jimmy Ettele
Were any of us ready for the challenges that were ahead of us as kids? Who is ready? Sure we can prepare, study, get ourselves fit but that doesn't mean we're ready. It means...read more
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As an educator of young adolescents I am continually concerned about the the young people how pass through my classroom from year to year. In a society of instant gratification...read more
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by Samantha Vee
Of course the youths of today are not ready for the challenges of tomorrow! How can they be fully prepared for tomorrow, when their lives today are pretty much a blur? Children ...read more
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by Latasha Cook
As a seventh grade English teacher, by the end of the day it is undeniable that the youth, as a whole, is not ready for the challenges of tomorrow. While it is my firm belief t...read more
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Why, in a society where everything is becoming easier to access and more quickly at that, would kids even understand what a real "challenge" was? So coddled and privileged are t...read more
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by Mrreality29
How can they (the youth of today) be ready for the challenges of tomorrow when they are busy playing on the computer, on the X-box, or out partying and getting tattoos, or ...read more
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by Geri Hudson
The following statement will anger many, many people, but here goes. The children of today are lazy, rude, disrepectful, self-centered in the extreme, and basically being raise...read more
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The youths of today aren't ready for the challenges of tomorrow. Youth nowadays don't have the solid foundations that generations before them had. Kids today don't know what str...read more
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by Molly Carter
I am concerned that our youth will not be well equipped for the challenges of tomorrow! Our public school system cares more about standardized testing than teaching students. ...read more
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by Mark Dykeman
I don't think anyone is ready, or perhaps prepared is a better word, for the challenges of tomorrow. Tomorrow is a moving target, as the saying goes, or to put it another way, ...read more
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The challenges of tomorrow. Wow, now there is one major issue! What we, as a Human Race, have done to the Planet and to ourselves, is pretty much the stupidest thing a humanoi...read more
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by Lee Eng Neo
While I agree that most of the youths of today are ill-prepared for what lies ahead for them in the years to come, I must emphasize that not just the younger generation but even...read more
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In a world where everything is made to be incredibly advanced, I have yet to see a real positive result. In advancing the way our society in particular has, we have backed ourse...read more
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by Randi Howell
I do not think the youths of today or anyone else in particular is ready for the challenges of tomorrow. Why? You may ask yourself has this person posted this comment? The truth...read more
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by Rene Romo
First of all the plural of youth is youth not youths. Second, how can we begin to think the youth of today would be ready if the adults of today aren't ready. I do not blame the...read more
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by Kevin Tumy
The new generation of American children are the most spoiled generation in the history of the world. No other generation has been brought up in a more prosperous and wealthy nat...read more
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Today's Teens To Carry Tomorrow's Torch? Too often we discredit a whole generation because of a few. How can our youth be expected to do that which we don't believe they can ...read more
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Let's be clear. The challenges of tomorrow are simply the problems that our parents have left us. The boomers did some wonderful things for America. They revolutionized American...read more
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"I don't know whats happening to todays youth. They are going to the dogs, I tell you. None of them are going to be ready to lead this country when their time comes. None of ...read more
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The youth of today will be ready for their challenges tomorrow. Every generation shares with the next their thoughts on how things have changed, as well as their belief that the...read more
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Now if I was being asked if the older generation were not ready for today then I would have agreed, but the younger generation are much more prepared than the ones previously. ...read more
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On a warm Spring evening in 1977 I sat listening to the class valedictorian's speech about our responsibilities in the years coming; all the preparedness that we must assume mas...read more
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by Livia De Amo
Technology driven youth with knowledge of environmental, political, social and ethical issues, what an incredible new generation to change the present and the future! The use of...read more
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by Sean Curtis
While I can certainly understand the argument that the youth of today will not be ready for the challenges of tomorrow, my optimistic view is that today's youth will rise to the...read more
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Ah, that good old American tradition. Do you remember the jazz scene in the twenties? The parents and grandparents of those short-haired, short-skirted, red-lipped, smoking girl...read more
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Every generation likes to belittle the one that comes after it. "When we were young ... blah blah blah." I don't belong to the youth category anymore, but I believe in them wh...read more
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by Ben Mackay
As a youth, I have first hand experience of whether we are ready for the challenges of tomorrow and I believe that we are as ready as the youths of the past were, who are now th...read more
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by Skye Davis
I believe that the majority of today's youth are smarter and wiser than my generation or that of my parents. My parents are both in their seventies. The way they were taught, t...read more
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The youth is more than ready for tomorrow's challenges. Adults today have become more conservationists in their views towards young people. This is because they could not make t...read more
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We live in a time, when the youth are not only prepared for the future, they are actively creating the future. Sure there's always going to be the stoner, goth, emo, rebelli...read more
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Since when has any elder generation agreed that their youths are ready for the challenges of tomorrow. There will always be negative points of each generation. This question i...read more
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by RL Barclay
If today's youth are not prepared for challenges which they will confront in the future, it is up to the veteran's of the difficulties within our society to prepare them. B...read more
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I strongly disagree with the statement. The sentence that states this phrase "The youths of today are not ready for the challenges of tomorrow" reeks of ignorance, and unjust ...read more
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by Holly Rogers
Todays youth has been forced to grow up faster living in todays society. They no longer lead the sheltered upbringing of children from past generations. Instead they are confron...read more
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+This decade has been called the 'decade of terror'. Children growing up in the past couple of decades have lived through. I was studying for final exams in sixth form when the ...read more
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As a youth of today I feel the statement is untrue and unfounded. Such a hasty generalization is not only a debasement to us, but also acts as a discourager. Sure, many of teena...read more
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