Older people are essential in the workplace. For a start they know how to spell, they know about common sense and how to use their initiative, know their times table and can work out 9x7 effortlessly in their heads without using a calculator. These skills derive from good old fashioned playground activities that allowed kids to scrape their knees without the school being sued, games that encouraged kids to exercise, such as hopscotch and skipping, and they worked off any puppy fat by climbing ropes in the gym and throwing up in the school toilets after eating vile school dinners like meat pie, cabbage and copidex mash potato - all with vitamins in them. Metaphorically, kids learnt how to suffer and how to survive without having everything handed to them on a plate. If they were naughty at school they got a clip round the ear when their father got home and sent to their bedroom without any supper.
Youngsters these days don't have any of these skills. They are brought up on a diet of Walkers crisps, sweets, burgers and KFC and sit in front of their Playstations from the time they learn to talk. Their introduction to literature is to learn how to text message and so they talk and write only in text. They are schooled in what their rights are but not how to be responsible. That's because they are educated in an environment that emphasises political correctness and civic and media studies, rather than good old fashioned subjects like history, geography, maths and physics. They can't do even the simplest sum without using a calculator. If they cheek the teacher they are routinely diagnosed as having 'Attention Deficit Disorder' and get a tax draining visit from a social worker who carries out a psychological assessment resulting in the teacher being sacked for misdiagnosing a 'problem child.' These days all of them get grade A's just for spelling their name correctly.
Older people are the natural benchmarks of excellence. At one time the term, 'grey matter' referred to brains and intelligence, now I feel it should be the modern day prosperity slogan for all corporations to have someone over 50 on their client sites.
Yes grey matters.
Youngsters these days don't have any of these skills. They are brought up on a diet of Walkers crisps, sweets, burgers and KFC and sit in front of their Playstations from the time they learn to talk. Their introduction to literature is to learn how to text message and so they talk and write only in text. They are schooled in what their rights are but not how to be responsible. That's because they are educated in an environment that emphasises political correctness and civic and media studies, rather than good old fashioned subjects like history, geography, maths and physics. They can't do even the simplest sum without using a calculator. If they cheek the teacher they are routinely diagnosed as having 'Attention Deficit Disorder' and get a tax draining visit from a social worker who carries out a psychological assessment resulting in the teacher being sacked for misdiagnosing a 'problem child.' These days all of them get grade A's just for spelling their name correctly.
Older people are the natural benchmarks of excellence. At one time the term, 'grey matter' referred to brains and intelligence, now I feel it should be the modern day prosperity slogan for all corporations to have someone over 50 on their client sites.
Yes grey matters.
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