Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? There is nothing that young people can teach older people. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
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It is an undeniable fact that there are a lot of things that older people can teach young people since they are more experienced and knowledgeable in many ways. However if we look at the different aspects, we find there are also things that young people can give advice about to the elderly. I have two main reasons to support this idea.
First, younger people are more skilled in collecting information, which may be helpful in emergency situations. Nowadays, thanks to the Internet and computers, it has become much easier for us to get access to a huge amount of information. Social media is especially useful when we get in trouble, including earthquakes, fires, and so on. However most older people are not used to using the internet and may fail to get the latest information. In fact, when there was a severe earthquake in Japan, the only way for the affected people to get information, and connect with others, was Twitter. Because of this, older people were more likely to fail to escape. From this incident, I strongly believe that young people should teach these skills associated with recent technology to the elderly.
Second, young people can teach the new subjects they are learning in their school, which will lead to drastic changes in future work. It is only recently that students in elementary schools are required to study English as a second language, how AI works, and programming. This means the required skills in future work will change. It will also have significant impacts on our future lifestyles, that matters to all of us including older people. Since the elderly don’t have access to those classes at school, they should be taught by the younger people. It will definitely help them have better life in their near future.
For these reasons, I believe there are things younger people can teach older people.
