The Wisdom of Youth

<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My plan to tell you about a cool website that I found has been derailed.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was reviewing some feedback from my students and two comments are just too important and insightful to go unshared.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We watched a film last week (or parts of one) that showed footage from the "sexual revolution."  It discussed sex and objectification of women among other things. These two comments refer to different things.  The second comment was made by several students in similar fashion.  These are college aged adults.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1) beauty is not earned <span style="font-size: small;">(this may be one of the most profound statements I have ever heard)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2) sex doesn't always result in disease or children - sometimes it just feels really great and leads to  an orgasm.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(note that the people who said this also gave foot notes about using protection and contraception - because they are smart!) </span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am really going to miss teaching next semester. </span></span>

The Wisdom of Youth

My plan to tell you about a cool website that I found has been derailed. I was reviewing some feedback from my students and two comments are...

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