If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.