Regarding Mike Kerrigan’s “Kids Don’t Learn the Ropes These Days” (op-ed, Sept. 10): I, too, remember those ropes. It was one of many challenges that looked much smaller after having accomplished it. Today we have a whole generation that is afraid to risk anything and feels endangered by any challenge. They observe their 40th birthday without having held a job, playing iPhone games in their mother’s basement. Let’s bring back the ropes in the gym and shop classes with table saws and lathes.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 16, 2018 17:03 UTC