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There’s a battle brewing between the generations
By Nicolas Van Praet
One of the most repeated hippie lines to make the rounds in the 1960s was “Never trust anyone over 30.” Now, it’s meaningless.
Today’s conflict between young and old is a complex and nuanced affair that elicits as many different responses as the number of people you ask.
Focus on Older People
By Jane Gates
It’s the International Year of Older Persons, and we are being encouraged to try to break down intergenerational barriers between young and old people.
Oops — that’s older people.
But what does it mean to be an older person these days? It certainly doesn’t have the same meaning it did at the beginning of the century — for that matter, even in the middle. And it most certainly will not have the same meaning in another 50 years.
Older students shying away from free university education
By Ariel Teplitsky
Colin Richardson missed the chance to attend university in his youth.
In his early teens in London, England, his life was interrupted by the Second World War. He later enlisted in the military. When the war ended in 1945, he only had time to attend night classes, and never got a degree.