Article April 6, 1968 Issue

An Interview: on Contemporary Youth

with contributions from Russell D. Robinson

Russell D. Robinson has devoted his entire career to working with youth and youth programs. Dr. Robinson holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin and is associate professor of education at its Milwaukee campus. A youth development specialist, he has directed workers program for training Peace Corps and antipoverty workers and heads an interracial workshop for fostering intergroup understanding in Milwaukee.

How would you characterize contemporary youth?

Searching and idealistic, open-minded and involved. Students on college campus are disillusioned with the idea that the natural science can provide ultimate answer, just as a preceding generation—their parents—concluded that religion could not provide the final answer and turned from it. Today's disillusionment with both science and religion impels youth to seek for something that goes beyond both orthodox religions and the amoral science. The search sometimes leads them on what we may regard as bizzare paths, but new direction they determined to find.

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