Reconnecting Generations |
Tuesday Jun 01 2010
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that the human race can only continue to evolve if we overcome the age segregation that has contributed so much to our dehumanization over the last few decades.
When I was an undergraduate in the early 1930s, I heard Ira D. Reid speak at a weekend college conference and learned truths about the African American experience which I felt had been kept from me. At the time I was in my teens. So Dr. Reid (1901-1968), who was in his 30s and director of research for the Urban League, seemed much older and wiser than I would ever be.
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
Tagged with: elders generations grace_lee_boggs hope intergenerational_conversation reconnecting wisdom young_people
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