1. The Opinions of Youth Often Need a Little Aging.
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CIVIL service , *STUDENTS , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *SEMANTICS , *HISTORY education , *LANGUAGE & languages , *COMMUNICATION - Abstract
Presents the author's views on the participation of the young people in the public affairs. Opinion of the author that students attempt to discuss current international problems which they simply do not have the historical and geographical and semantic knowledge; Comment of George Kennan, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia that the early days of school and colleges are the only ones available for history, for literature, for art, for thought and for philosophy; Difficulty of teaching anything to students, who are so ignorant of their own language that it is nearly impossible lo communicate to them the meaning of precise expression.
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- 1961