Dear Students – I hope you enjoyed your summer camp. It gives me a great pleasure to hear from our students that summer camp organized by us was filled with thrill for them and everyone got to learn a lot. Now, welcome back to your classroom and your studies!As your class teacher, if I were to share my experience with you I would like to say that it was a mixed experience for me. New place, new activities, fresh vibes to imbibe, etc gave an enriching experience. However, frictions between the teachers and students at some level came to the forefront. Though your class is known to be higher secondary classes and we teachers share a great understanding level with you all yet that compatibility element was missing, which I strongly felt after I moved out with you all from the school boundaries.So today before I begin your regular course work, I would like to deliver a brief speech on Generation Gap. It is a very critical issue because I see many students experiencing that gap with respect to their teachers. Let me tell you students that we do understand your age and what you may like or probably dislike. But do you students ever try to adapt yourself according to the people around who are elder to you. Probably not, right! It is everyimportant to respect that age gap and eventually the generation gap that naturally comes in when people from different age come together. Two people don’t have to be necessarily at odds with each other all the time as they can try to understand each other’s thought process and way of looking atthings and learn something from each other in the end.Not everything that is old or belongs to the previous times is bad and everything that is modern is worth embracing. One should be sensible enough to make a clear distinction between what is worth embracing and what is worth leaving behind.Generation gap is something that you can never escape as wherever you will go you will find people from different age group and school of thoughts. This gap is nothing but a conflict of thoughts between people, who come from two different generations. In many cases, this conflict of thoughts is between the young and the old. The experienced or what you may call old people based on their experiences gain a wiser perspective of life which today’s generation find old-fashioned thinking.On the contrary, today’s generation who have no such experience of life act impulsively andfollow their instincts rather than their judgment or discretion. Let me give you an example, if a family is going on a trip by car. The son who is young will drive faster as it will give him excitement. The father or the grandfather on the other hand would want to drive slow and at a reasonable speed because they will be more worried about any mishap that may take place on the road.So this type of difference in thinking between people of two different generations will always exist. This difference is seen in families and institutions where young and oldpeople coexist. The best way to handle such situation is to become amiable and patient with the people around and respect the age gap. The elders are mature and often adjustable who can mould themselves as per the younger generation. When you will grow up to be adults, I am sure you will also experience a change in your attitude and startrespecting your elders’ way of thinking or probably looking at things.So take it easy and try to adjust yourself in every situation – it’s a trait of every great personality.Thank You!