Crabbed Youth
RESERVE my decision on the merits of the innovation in the 2ZB Citizens’ Forum whereby each topic is debated by’ a Panel of Youth and a Panel of Maturity, pausing 'merely to note, (1) that it was high time something was done; and (2) ‘the gratifying fact (gratifying to the mature listener) that Youth, bless it, is so much stodgier and more crabbed than age, On a recent Sunday the topic debated was Is Spoonfeeding Making Our People Soft? and certainly anything less soft than the youth panel (themselves more a product of the system than the mature) could hardly be imagined. Obviously much hard toil had gone into the preparation of those lengthy definitions and fluently-delivered speeches, and the mental outlook, even when altruistic, was predominantly pioneer. The adults, on the other hand, were of softer, more yielding*intellectual clay, showing more shakiness in the hand of the potter. But their preference for the personal in argument and their inadequately justified dogmatism made them much more entertaining listening. IL especially liked the gentleman who said hotly, "Anyone who says the youth
eof today is soft is casting a slur on our present All Blacks"--a remark succeed-
ed by three minutes’ silence,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 11
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205Crabbed Youth New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 11
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