It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.
She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
The adults were completely wrong.
