ADOLESCENCE is an artificial state, created by the demands of
complex modem society for further education. Youth is prolonged by
the requirements of training, apprenticeship, school, college and
university, and those who are better intellectually endowed than
others face a time of further education that may last from at least
three to six years after leaving school. As such they are
privileged by the opportunities they can enjoy-and the student who
belongs to the educational elite of today can belong to the social
elite of tomorrow's world. These privileged adolescents, however,
have much need of un derstanding, sympathy, and help through the
crises of develop ment, be they social, psychological or
environmental in cause-because the student of today is the most
precious investment for the community' sfuture. Whether it be
problems of academic wastage, stress, depression, adjustment to
personal relationships or the demands of just simply growing up,
the privileged adolescent has a difficult time in contemporary
society. If we, as parents, doctors, teachers, taxpayers and adults
are responsible for making it any more difficult than it ought to
be, by prejudice, lack of understanding or through not offering the
right help at the right time, then we bear a terrible
responsibility. Society will suffer for the harm it causes its
adolescents and there are many who feel, perhaps justifiably, that
addiction, promiscuity, suicide, depression and neurosis are
symptoms of 'social illness' marked out by individual tragedy."
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