Topic is there anything that young people can teach older peopl4

Topic Is there anything that young people can teach older
people?
Generally speaking, older people have more knowledge, experience
and skills than young people. Compared with them, the young are
just unfledged. But is it reasonable to say there is nothing that the
young can teach older people? No. You can never say that.
Firstly, being old doesn`t always mean having more knowledge.
One`s knowledge is not proportional to one`s age directly. So we
cannot decide whether a person is more intellectual merely by
judging his or her age. The Chinese famous philosopher Confucius
said that you could always find someone to teach you when walking
with a group of people. So no one can claim to know all. Even if he
was an expert in sciences, he may be a layman in communicating
with other people. Therefore anyone including the young and old
must have something special, something that other people are not
familiar with. In this case, they can, of course, teach each other.
Secondly, knowledge is exploding in this information epoch.
People must keep replenishing their knowledge. Young people are
more frequently exposed to new knowledge and they are also
eager to learn them. In such field as computer technology, young
people are showing more enthusiasm and talent. Today the world`s
prominent computer giants are young people. They are teachers of
the old.
Thirdly, young people are usually energetic, ambitious, curious and
risky. Compared with the young, old people are often reserved,
conservative or even stubborn. They want to keep what they have
got and do not like changes. While the young, however, want to
change. They are usually not content with what they have at present.
So they are willing to accept new things, challenge traditions and
customs, put forward ideas and create new inventions. They are not
worry about failure. They can restart from the very beginning after a

blunder. In this sense, young people represent the progressive. They
have much to teach the old in this respect.
But, after all, older people are more experienced. In my opinion, the


young and the old should teach and learn from each other. The old
will pass away; the young have to become old; and a new
generation will emerge. Forever, our world consists of young and
old, who work together to make the world increasingly beautiful.