Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Extremely Boring Discussions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (104)	10/14/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 410

I don't what the "subject" is of this post- not exactly class differences.. THe friend I was with last night teaches Math in high school and has for many years. She said she has noticed a gradual decline over the years in respect for others (gee, she should read SI). Not an intelligent questioning springing from the desire to understand, but an ignorant and arrogant posturing. Apparently the day before, the cafeteria had run out of fries and some of the students got very rude, telling the workers that they paid their salaries, and that they expected them to do their jobs, yadayada. When they came to class, she asked them if they'd never heard the expression "Catch more flies with honey". They responded that "those people" worked for them, and that you didn't have to be nice to them. KAthy teaches in a rural high school--- these are not wealthy, or even particularly gifted students. But somehow they have learned? Been taught? Are emulating? some attitude of superiority and entitlement- unearned and undeserved. And worse, they see "others" as inferior. I wonder if in the New Age eagerness to give our children "self-esteem", that horrible concept that has replaced hard work and reality, we have created a monster group of selfish egocentric little creeps.