Forget the “Kids These Days” Narratives- Kids These Days Know More Than Ever Before

Matthew Oldridge
4 min readJan 7, 2024

I have been adamant that this statement is true for a long time. Generations above love to put down those below. The narrative is always, “they know less, they can do less.” So it has always been, and you can thank Socrates for that (Paul Fairie writes incredible Twitter threads, soon to be in book form, about narratives like this… “kids don’t want…

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Matthew Oldridge

Writing about creativity, books, productivity, education, particularly mathematics, music, and whatever else “catches my mind”. ~Thinking about things~