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Thoughts About Generations and Generation Gaps

Thoughts About Generations and Generation Gaps
In this photograph taken on Sept. 26, 2017, high school students use smartphones and tablet computers at the vocational school in Bischwiller, eastern France. Since the beginning of the school year in eastern France some 31,000 high school pupils have replaced their traditional textbooks by computers and tablets, a move popular with students but opinion is divided among teachers and parents. PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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The last week of August was different for me this year. The college students are back in class, but I’ve stayed home. I retired from teaching in May. As I look back fondly on the years when I had the privilege of working with our country’s youth, I’d like to share a few observations and reflections.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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