Simply because while lack of political engagement keeps progress from happening, there is also plenty of evidence that given political leadership, progress can be astonishingly fast (e.g. See WaterAid's studies in Southeast Asia "Achieving total sanitation and hygiene coverage within a generation -- lessons from East Asia").
For my generation those lessons are secure, as is Milk's place in history.
As a children's book author, I've been able to expand my reach and inspire another generation with lessons I've learned from him.
But it will take a generation for lesson judgements to be removed, and in the meantime, I'd like to see observations containing much more emphasis on peer-dialogue and much less focus on criterion-referenced judgements.
Inside, Knowles gives an interview that will probably be studied by future generations for lessons in both the loopiness of the 21st-century celebrity world and how hilariously far American magazine interviews have fallen since the days of, say, Gay Talese and Lillian Ross.
This new generation "learned the lessons of the Holocaust," Mr. Kleeblatt said, not in school and not from their parents but from cartoons and films.
At a strategic level, the major value addition of this project has been the generation of knowledge, lessons and possible approaches to address flood and cyclonic risks to primary education.
One hopes that Twitter -- and text-message costs -- can teach a new generation the same lesson.
Trump's admission into a club that includes Washington and Lincoln, both Roosevelts, and, yes, Obama promises to teach the same generation a different lesson altogether.
Powell says Britten and Pears "taught gay men of my generation the astonishing lesson that it was possible for a homosexual couple to live decently and unapologetically in provincial England".
What Ms. Schulman termed the "naturalization" of AIDS occurred as generations indoctrinated with lessons of abstinence and safer sex practice lost touch with a time when AIDS was stigmatized as a "gay plague".
