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Re: friday funnies early



You've answered your own question correctly, in my experience. I teach
freshman and sophomore college American history--have done for about 16
years. These stories on the list have amused me because they happen all
of the time with 18-20-something-year-olds. But there are also
"Millenials" who know what you want them to know, and who want to know
more and don't express shock at older technologies. These more
"culturally literate" ones seem to also be the better students, more
knowledgeable generally, articulate, well-informed, and conscientious.
They refer to their parents or grandparents having told them about how it
used to be.

Then what makes you feel old is that you're the age of their parents
(36-40) or grandparents (60s).

Kathy Sturdevant
Author, Bringing Your Family History to LIfe through Social History


On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:50:06 +0100 Maria Clara Assuncao <massuncao@BN.PT>
writes:
> All this conversations seems to me a bit strange.
> My 11 year old niece uses the computer since she was 3 (that's when
> I bought
> mine), she uses normally the PC, the CD player, all that stuff
> (Portugal is
> not in the third world), but... she knows very well what a vinil LP
> is. I
> think she never heard one but she knows what it is. It's a normal
> thing. We
> don't play them anymore but they are in the closet, near the CD. Her
> parents
> are 40, her oncle and aunt (me) are 39 and 34. People talk about
> things,
> sing songs, she heard about the Beatles... well, I cannot imagine
> how a
> teenager doesn't know these things. My niece is not different from
> other
> girls of her age.
> People don't talk to each other ?!?
> Parents don't talk with their children, don't teach them things ?
> The kids only know wath is happening in this precise moment, in his
> own
> neighbourhood ?
> How is it possible ?!?
>
>  Maria Clara
> > ----------
> > De:   Pope, Barbara[SMTP:bpope@MAIL.STLCOP.EDU]
> > Responder a:  Pope, Barbara
> > Enviado:      quinta-feira, 4 de Outubro de 2001 16:22
> > Para:         ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Assunto:      Re: friday funnies early
> >
> > I feel a little bewildered. I don't know who or what Boswell is. I
> guess I
> > am kind of a young one (almost 31), though.
> >
> > Barbara M. Pope, M.L.S.
> > Reference Librarian
> > O.J. Cloughly Alumni Library
> > St. Louis College of Pharmacy
> > 4588 Parkview Place
> > St. Louis, MO 63110
> > Voice: +1 314-367-8700, ext. 1001
> > Fax:    +1 314-367-2784
> > Email:  bpope@mail.stlcop.edu
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> [mailto:lufte@MAIL.UPSTATE.EDU]
> > Sent: 04 October, 2001 9:33 AM
> > To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject: Re: friday funnies early
> >
> >
> > > When I was teaching in the late eighties a student of mine
> rushed up
> > > to me all excited: he had just discovered a "new" rock group:
> The
> > > Doors..!!! Roberta Ransley-Matteau
> >
> > That reminds me of my most embarrassing moment EVER! When I was a
> > sophomore
> > at Bowdoin, I took an
> > independent study course on Alexander Pope from a senior member of
> the
> > English Department. At our
> > first meeting, the professor asked me to do some background
> research on
> > the
> > period. This I did, in
> > the library, with great enthusiasm, and I discovered some
> excellent
> > context
> > in which to learn about
> > Pope. At our second meeting, brimming with this new knowledge, I
> gushed,
> > "Have you ever heard of
> > Boswell?"
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > --
> >
> > Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> > Curator of Historical Collections, Health Sciences Library
> > SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210
> > <http://web.upstate.edu/lufte/> -- 315-464-4585
> >
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