The kids today are every bit as bright as the kids of fifty or more years ago. They have a hell
of a lot more to learn than I did at their age. I had things in highschool my father had had in
college. My kids had in high school things I had in college. It must be still worse today.
Regrettably too much of their energy goes into being "street wise" instead of scholars.
I still remember the guys in the Army who were dismayed to find they could not be
candidates for Officer Training School because they had wasted highschool.
When they got out of the Army,thousands of them went back to school, and into college.
One of my former instructors in 1956 commented on how much harder the ex-GIs worked
than the students of my era. He leered at me: "If you were applying now, we wouldn't
accept you." Part of it also was the fact that with girls in the class, a lot of males
tried harder not to seem stupid.
The values judgments of today's kids appal me, but I know that they will grow up when
they have to.
