Carole Maso Reading

"So turn to the students. Young visionaries."

This quote stood out to me for a number of reasons: the first and foremost being that I am, of course, a student, and hopefully one of those young visionaries the writer speaks of. At our age, in this day and age, it seems we all want to change the world, just like every generation that has come before us dreamt of doing. The young people have always been the ones to 'turn to' about the future; yesterday the students were our parents, today it's us, and tomorrow it'll be our children. It's a cycle, which the "you" addressed in the piece continually fails to understand. I found this reading repitious and lengthy, so much so I began to lose interest despite being fascinated by the point the writer was trying to make. But overall I agreed, that the past had a good run, and will continue to have a good run, but there's room in the world for both it and the things of the future. The writer speaks about coexisting. It can be done, but not by the past. They have only known one way. But we have known their way and have created our own way, are always learning new ways. It can be done, but it has to be done by us, by the students, by the young visionaries of the future.