Pearl S. Buck Quote

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.


As quoted in An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983) by George H. Culp and Herbert N. Nickles, p. 190; also in Youth Quake: A Manifesto (2002) by Cousin Sam, p. 31


The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.