Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pyuser583 1047 days ago
My experience is young people are rarely inspired by news stories.

Of all news stories, the ones involving court cases are the least inspiring.

This isn’t about a disadvantaged person overcoming adversity. It’s a bunch of suits sitting on a room.

2 comments

You might surprised how a good teacher could inspire hope in teenagers over this, contrary to all the other signals that indicate doom and gloom in their futures. Global warming was already weighing on me in my teens when I'm in my 30s now. It's a much more visible issue now.
A good teacher can make soup exciting. Catching interest is 90% of teaching.

I’m in my 40s, and for a good chunk of my childhood overpopulation and resource scarcity were big fears.

It took me a like time to accept the global warming consensus, because that’s what happens when experts cry wolf.

This looks like an interesting case, but also very specific to Montana.

Myexperience is the opposite. Both my memory and my observation