What do you think when you drive through a student town...

..and see all the multicoloured hair and also many of them have tattoos too?

At the student town which I drive through often, it's enough to make one quite despondent for the prospects of the next generation.

The piercings as well

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

I teach a lot of those students.

I have great hopes for the next generation. Hair color and tattoos have nothing to do with character and intelligence. I have generally enjoyed my interactions with my students.

When I was their age, the older generation was despairing about the "younger generation " as well. We were supposedly spoiled by Dr. Spock, ruined by weed, and corrupted by draft-dodging anti-war politics.

And perhaps, today's 20-year-olds will be griping about the "younger generation" 50 years from now!