It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given. (Quote by - Midge Decter)

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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. (Quote by - Coventry Patmore)

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American Editor and Journalist, She was executive director for the Committee for Free World . (Quote by - Midge Decter)

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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."close quotation. ( by - Coventry Patmore)

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Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low; 'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour, And the eldest was born half an hour ago. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)

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Been given a sudden glimpse into the foundations of one's house and seen, with horror, that it was utterly infested and rotting away. (Quote by - Midge Decter)

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children. (Quote by - Midge Decter)

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. (Quote by - Midge Decter)

We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. (Quote by - Midge Decter)