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Idealism < - - - - > Reallsm < - - - - > Cynicism

In a teacher prep course, the professor said youthful idealism peaks at age 12 and gradually declines.

My youthful idealism lasted until I became an environmental activist, and in my mid-forties I started telling people, “On my travels beteen idealism and cynicism, I try to spend some time in realism.”

You?

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Answer 1

Realism is the end product form the other two

Answer 2

There’s youthful idealism, which maybe most of us had, and mature idealism, probably more a product of genetics, health, experiences and education.

Answer 3

I would ask what the professor meant by youthful idealism. Having been alive so long, having had children, and having taught I would question that premise. Did the professor mean it reaches a point and if not pollinated it dies, then maybe.

Answer 4

After watching the deaths of soo many people, on TV, during Vietnam, then horrors that followed, my "youthful idealism" has grown deeper.


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