| Show YOUTH AND AGE TESTED leland stanford university in california has begun making tests comparing the mental ability of young and old persons two groups of young and elderly professors in the leading pacific coast colleges were tried out under intelligence tests and the results result 4 showed that they scored just about equally it is ordinarily felt that older people have had more experience of life and can hence form more matured judgments while younger people think more quickly and can learn new things more readily the chief fault of youth is lack of background with which to compare new ideas A young person hears some theory propounded and it looks very good to him he feels that the application of this theory would be vel very y beneficial to the community but when people worked along under that system for awhile it is often discovered th it t it has defects that they never thought of it may make conditions worse the elderly person compares such suggestions with his own experience and it is of often I 1 ten apt to see where they are faulty the chief fault of age is that it tends to become set in certain preconceptions elderly people have thought over the problems mob lems of life and have usually reached fixed conclusions clu they do not baisly accept new evidence tending to show such conclusions to be imperfect and they el cling ing to old and outworn methods of work each element of people should avoid the errors and faults of its own type young people should be constant readers of history and the experience of the race so that they may quickly recognize the errors that have created trouble in the past elderly people should recognize that human society is in a process of constant change and that our systems of life and society are faulty and must constantly cost antly be improved 0 its no wonder we pot ct hard bard boiled most of us are in hot water a greater greMer part of the time |
