Are there still Heroes out there?
Being part of a Headmasters conference today brought up some interesting talking points, specifically around generations. The teachers were saying that they have found the school kids of today, don’t have heroes. When Grade 10s were set a project to choose a hero, say why and what you could learn from them, most the kids really battled to even get started, and very few finished the project.
Is the ability to surf the net, gather info, cut and paste into homework…..preventing kids from reading, and processing material or information, and almost owning their own thoughts and ideas? Is this a trend of the Y generation?
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It seems like technology is an easy ‘out’ for the ills we suffer in the world today. Piracy, violence, lack of reading, sex, bombs, and lack of heroes.
I’d like to suggest it’s because of the net and reading that kids today don’t have heroes. They’ve become far too aware that the heroes of their world (their parents and their parents friends)are not the people they said they were. In front of their eyes the heroes have been shown to be very flawed.
The reason they don’t have heroes is because there aren’t many of them left. Or maybe they’ve been looking in the wrong places.
Here’s another thought from the movie “Monster-in-law” in that great scene between the Monster and ‘Britney’ (look-alike? I wasn’t sure), where she goes off at how today’s heroes are not in fact heroes at all cos they don’t read, don’t know what’s going on, yada yada. The media have been promoting all the wrong people for today’s kids to hero-ize. No wonder they end up being disapointed.
But perhaps Michael Jordan said it best in a Nike advert many years ago, when he made it clear that he didn’t want to be ‘your kids hero.’ He suggested parents needed to be the hero to their kids?