A Quote by William Damon
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
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That the world have never been.
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