Somehow I am confident that the generation he is moaning about will achieve every bit as much as his did.
Grandfathers have always moaned bout the hopeless adolescents, and expected an educational apocalypse. And the growth of knowledge and academic standards have kept right on climbing. I'll bet that one student he moaned and foamed about will be quite successful, and in his turn be worried about the adolescents he teaches.
He needs a much large sampling to make a vaild judgment.