Despite these criticisms, idealism and a sense of adventure are often the catalysts for significant societal change.
Closely linked is the reproach of being "dreamers." In a society that worships pragmatism, productivity, and measurable results, dreaming is seen as a luxury, a distraction from the serious business of building a career and paying bills. But dreams are the blueprints of the future. Before the airplane was a mechanism of steel and fuel, it was a dream in the mind of a boy watching birds. Before a novel is a manuscript, it is a constellation of imagined lives. Before a cure is found, it is a hypothesis deemed improbable. To reprimand a young person for dreaming is to confuse the seed with the weed. Youth is the season for wide-eyed exploration, for connecting seemingly unrelated ideas, for daring to ask "what if?" A society that kills its dreamers is a society that forfeits its artists, its inventors, and its prophets. Despite these criticisms, idealism and a sense of
Une société qui reproche aux jeunes d'être idéalistes et aventuriers peut avoir des conséquences négatives. Cela peut décourager les jeunes de prendre des risques et de poursuivre leurs rêves, ce qui peut les amener à se sentir étouffés et frustrés. Cela peut également contribuer à créer une société qui est trop conservatrice et qui n'innove pas suffisamment. Before the airplane was a mechanism of steel
On reproche aux jeunes d’avoir "la tête dans les nuages". Mais le rêve est le stade embryonnaire de toute innovation. Dans un monde en mutation rapide, les solutions d’hier ne fonctionnent plus. To reprimand a young person for dreaming is
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw