Elders Quote by Margaret Mead

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

— Margaret Mead

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

— Doris Lessing

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we…

— Barry Humphries

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

— George Orwell

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

— Cleve Jones

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the…

— John Irving

The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the…

— Gary DeMar

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every…

— Terry Jones

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

— Spike Lee

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that…

— Gustav Stresemann