|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Many teachers I know today say that this generation of children holds a certain grudge against adults. I understand that. It is natural for children to complain about their elders. They come into the world feeling as though others owe them, and they are right in a way. Children inherently expect special attention, care, and guidance. They believe that they deserve it, and they do.
But what do we actually give them?
On the surface, we provide education. We send them to school. School, however, does not raise human beings. It produces professionals in myriad fields, e.g. physicists, mathematicians, and engineers. But it does not build the human. We do not give them true upbringing. We do not shape their inner world, their values, or their humanity.
So what happens? They go through school day after day, year after year, and they emerge as animals. It sounds harsh, but that is the truth. We do not instill in them what it means to be a human being in relation to others and to life itself. Then, if you ask who is to blame, the answer is that we are.
Parents are constantly busy, at work, distracted, and overwhelmed. Children’s peers, and their screens and smartphones, are thus left to raise them. They absorb everything they see and hear without a filter or understanding. The result is a generation detached from values, from real human connection, and from a healthy vision of the future.
Until humanity wakes up and takes this matter seriously, i.e., takes control of the informational and emotional diet our children consume, and applies strict, conscious, and value-driven connection-enriching education, then matters will only worsen. We must provide children with an education that teaches them how to live, not just how to compute or memorize.
We have raised a generation that behaves destructively, and it is our doing. So if I were speaking to children today as a teacher, I would not lecture them with dry facts. I would sit down with them and say: “Let’s figure this out together. Let’s understand who we are, what we want from life, how we can relate to one another, and what kind of world we want to live in.”
“We adults will not be around forever. But you, the next generation, will be. And you will shape the world that comes next. So what kind of people must you become to ensure that world is kind, good, and safe?” This is the constantly-running conversation that we need to be having.
Also, we should not pity the younger generation. They must, however, begin to feel where this world is headed if left as it is, that it will become colder, more cruel, and artificial, unfit for human beings.
Can they understand this? I trust that they can. Can they change? Absolutely. However, it is a process and it will not happen in just one conversation. It could take several years, which is fine. What matters is that we persist, that we push forward incessantly.
It is because, in the end, our greatest task is not to raise successful professionals, but to raise a generation of happy and confident human beings.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 21, 2025. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Posted on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Newsletter, Medium, Twitter X, YouTube, Quora