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The older generation thinks it is their duty to educate the younger generation. Therefore, they will think that if they don't pass on their knowledge and experience to the younger generation, it is a sign of dereliction of duty, so they will appear to be "good teachers."
Education also gives the older generation a possible sense of accomplishment. By educating the younger generation, after the younger generation has repeatedly avoided losses or achieved some achievements, the older generation has gained a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. The common phenomenon of children's comparison is the embodiment of this psychology to some extent, or in other words, it can be called vanity.
Educating the younger generation is a kind of self-salvation and self-improvement. The older generation has accumulated some experiences and lessons, hoping that young people will not make mistakes and suffer losses on the same thing, and that the younger generation will accelerate their success and take fewer detours.
Educating the younger generation can reflect their own identity. Influenced by some ideologies and concepts, some people of the older generation will gain a sense of existence and control through education.
Educating the younger generation may also be a sign of love that adults think. Education is a social activity to cultivate people consciously, in which family education and school education are basically the education of the older generation to the younger generation. Whether parents treat their children or teachers treat their students, they are essentially manifestations of love.
It is good for the older generation to remind young people with their long-term accumulated experience and let them dispel their doubts through this word, but the problem is that educators who always "lean on the old and sell the old" always show their elders' identity, which is not easy to accept.
Looking at the older generation, if they really "learn", "make a difference in society" or have a certain social status, they don't love "educating" people so much. Most of them like to discuss things with young people. If the discussion is really intense and in-depth, they will feel that they have learned something from young people, but they will lament that they are not as fast as young people in accepting new things.
On the other hand, some "mediocre" and "empty for a long time" elders, the more they go to some family gatherings, the more they like to highlight their "family status", and they will always come up with some so-called truths, no matter what they are familiar with or unfamiliar with, or even what they have never been exposed to, they can always talk to Kan Kan with their mouths open. At this time, once refuted, it will be strongly suppressed by identity.
"I have lived for fifty or sixty years. What do you know as a young man who has just left society? "
"What I said is wrong. When I was wandering in society, you were not born yet. "
Maybe they really have nothing else to prove themselves, so they can only find some balance from the "innate advantage" of this family relationship to satisfy their self-esteem!