122 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 6 Apr \ on: Rant: Young People are Getting Terrible Advice and it's Destroying Our Culture culture
IMO, young kids definitely need a persuasive guidance, not in the sense they should accept this by default.
There's a great difference between advice and guidance. Advice is particularly based on the interests and view of the advisor, whereas guidance necessarily aim at shaping up of young ones into what they really want with their lives.
Being a college teacher, I have never tried to impose pieces of advice on my students. I have preferred to guide them to form their own approach.
I like that. I think I am talking about replacing the prevailing advice with guidance. When I was teaching in college I took the same approach.
I'm curious if any of this resonated with you, or if it's mostly a western thing.
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Yes definitely. It's not a western thing, it's been practised in India since ancient times.
The gurus used to guide shishyas (students) to skill up their own interests.
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I meant if any of my cultural concerns resonated. I had no doubt that India has a much longer running tradition of guidance than the west does.
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