I think the most important task I have is to help young people gain a more prominent role in world affairs than the one we currently afford them, or rather deny them. I mean, what is this arrogance that makes us think that we know better than them? We call them immature and naive. 

"Wait till you're grown-up, then we'll listen to you."

What we really mean is:

"Wait till you're grown old, then you'll think the way we do."

And so youth stands aside because it has no other choice, and we set to work. We ply them with our values, we indoctrinate them with our mediocrity. Until finally they emerge from their brainwashing education as so-called fully fledged citizens, clipped, impotent, and above all safe.

(Damien Thorn, The Omen III: The Final Conflict)