[al:新概念英语（四）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Youth] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.49]Lesson 5 [00:03.31]Youth [00:10.57]How does the writer like to treat young people? [00:16.76]People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. [00:21.23]If there is one--which I take leave to doubt [00:24.73]--then it is older people who create it,not the young themselves. [00:29.87]Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings [00:36.39]--people just like their elders. [00:38.96]There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: [00:43.25]the young man has a glorious future before him [00:46.68]and the old one has a splendid future behind him:and maybe that is where the rub is. [00:55.19]When I was a teenager,I felt that I was just young and uncertain-- [00:59.90]that I was a new boy in a huge school, [01:03.34]and I would have been very pleased to be regarded [01:05.95]as something so interesting as a problem. [01:09.48]For one thing,being a problem gives you a certain identity, [01:14.15]and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking. [01:19.81]I find young people exciting. [01:22.83]They have an air of freedom, [01:25.09]and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. [01:30.70]They are not anxious social climbers,and they have no devotion to material things. [01:37.10]All this seems to me to link them with life and the origins of things. [01:42.36]It's as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. [01:52.40]All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. [01:56.15]He may be conceited,ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, [02:02.55]but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders-- [02:08.28]as if mere age were a reason for respect. [02:12.00]I accept that we are equals,and I will argue with him,as an equal,if I think he is wrong.