Adora Svitak Quotes
If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
Svitak, Adora. "What Adults Can Learn From Kids." TED, Feb. 2010.
This captures the essence of the Social Security System and similar old age support programs. In earlier and less developed societies, the cultural tradition was that the children had a responsibility to car for the elderly members of their families; in sophisticated societies, there is recognition that some younger people will not or cannot fill this responsibility and the system is institutionalized as Social Security of some variant thereof.
Adora Svitak is an American writer, public speaker, former child prodigy, and activist. She now works for the Wikimedia Foundation as a communications associate.