托福备考资料:T友写作范文汇总(六十二)

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126 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.

Perhaps because of more experience older people gain, some people hold that there is nothing that youths can teach older people. Others, including me, however, are opposed to this perspective. The reasons are listed below.

First of all, youths have a wealth of modern knowledge. In order to qualify youths for the intense challenge in the future, institutes generally do their best to provide well-chosen knowledge to educate young people. It is important, especially according to the unparalleled explosion of knowledge. On the other hand, older people, who learned antiquated and limited knowledge decades of years age, are not able to follow social progress well. Of course, older people can retire and enjoy family happiness as they please. Alternatively, they can renew their knowledge with the youths’ help. For instance, in my city, when the summer vacation comes, some excellent students who specialize in computer science from major universities will go to communities to impart the knowledge of using computer and browsing the internet to older people.
Second, with respect to this argument, I think this is not dependent on age, experience and social status. Some older people view that they will be bereft of their pride if they ask youths questions. In realistic case, certain arrogant leaders are unwilling to learn from their subordinates and ignore sometimes the real wonderful ideas. Such phenomenon makes the operation inefficient. As a famous Chinese saying goes that there must a teacher in every three persons. Without doubt, every person knows something that others do not know.

Admittedly, older people have a difficult time due to the poor ability to accept new things. But it is advantageous in learning step by step. Moreover, it is better late than never.

As mentioned above, I recognize that there is much that older people can learn from youths. And both learn from each other can make things better.