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[00:00.31]Lesson 5
[00:02.28]Youth
[00:09.33]How does the writer like to treat young people?
[00:14.44]People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
[00:20.18]If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt
[00:24.26]-- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
[00:29.98]Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings
[00:36.74]-- people just like their elders.
[00:39.60]There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:
[00:45.00]the young man has a glorious future before him
[00:48.85]and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.
[00:57.12]When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain --
[01:03.42]that I was a new boy in a huge school,
[01:06.66]and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.
[01:13.57]For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity,
[01:18.92]and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
[01:24.14]I find young people exciting.
[01:27.09]They have an air of freedom,
[01:29.42]and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.
[01:35.47]They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.