' The change in the calibre of Australian students as compared to earlier times is discussed. Among successive generations of students, temperament is variable, whereas their average intellectual calibre is almost the same.' (Publication abstract)
'The next section of this eleven-part series of articles. The change in the calibre of Australian students as compared to earlier times is discussed. Among successive generations of students, temperament is variable, whereas their average intellectual calibre is almost the same.' (Publication abstract)
'The third part of this eleven-part series of articles. The change in the calibre of Australian students as compared to earlier times is discussed. Among successive generations of students, temperament is variable, whereas their average intellectual calibre is almost the same.' (Publication abstract)
'The author argues how apathetic and uneducated Australian society is today. He mentions the cause and effect of certain Liberal party policies, for instance the cuts to education, that have concomitant effects in creating ignorant youth.' (Publication abstract)
'A creative opinion piece in the style of a lecture to the younger generation, full of tongue-in-cheek advice, warnings and cynicism.' (Publication abstract)
'Today's is a self-watching generation. Outer events are not so important in themselves as the reactions they produce in both observer and participant. These reactions are mainly dictated by outside pressures and are not wholly personal. Everyone is his own Big Brother and watches himself anxiously for deviations from what has been disseminated as Modern Thinking.' (Publication abstract)
'The continuing series of articles on the 'Temperament of Generations'. The paternalistic view of society as people being passive recipients of goods and government is discussed. Modern radicals feel transformation of society in a socialist and democratic direction to be essential.' (Publication abstract)
'The continuing series of articles on the 'Temperament of Generations'. The three major types of dissenters and the roles that they play are discussed. The question of one's own involvement in issue-oriented activism depends on the nature of the issue concerned.' (Publication abstract)
'The continuing series of articles on the 'Temperament of Generations'. The tendency to look upon the Australian youth with remorseless esteem is discussed. The author disputes a generation gap, saying that the youth of the day are just as conservative as their parents.' (Publication abstract)
'The next section of the eleven-part series of articles.The need for the changing reforms in West German universities is discussed. The new wave of consciousness rising up within universities all over the world is a hopeful beginning, and is greatly welcomed.' (Publication abstract)
'An interesting process in life is the way in which one moves through the generations. Is a generation really thirty-three years, or is it only ten? But what a long time ten years is. When you meet someone whom you haven't seen for fifteen years, or even ten, it doesn't seem like a generation, it is another life. And so many of one's old friends are ghosts. Did they really look like that, talk like that? Did one ever really understand them? Great wedges of their personality have been withdrawn or have just collapsed, since one last met them. They look like disused piers. Are these wedges Marxism-Leninism, or the other things one argued about or just thought about in the 'forties and 'fifties? If they are, then these old friends couldn't have been living during those years - just killing time, and youth, and fantasy Fascists. Perhaps the realisation of those lost years is weighing us all down. Perhaps ten or twenty years out of one's life, no matter how spent, leaves its mark. But put that way, ten or twenty years doesn't seem long at all. They shouldn't look so crapped off.' (Publication abstract)