Each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Each generation is responsible for evaluating and accounting for what it leaves to its children.
- In plain terms
- Every generation must explain to its children what they did.
- What can you take from it?
- Every generation must account for its actions to the next.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What account do you owe your children?
- How do you judge a generation?
Another view
Children may not care about the accounting.
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