The antonyms for the word "succeeding generation" are the preceding generation or the preceding cohort. They refer to the group of individuals who came before the current generation, either in terms of age, experience, or time. The preceding generation may have different perspectives and values that contrast with the current generation's beliefs and ideas. They can serve as an inspiration for the younger generation or a source of conflict and opposition. The preceding generation may have faced different challenges and opportunities that contribute to their distinctive views and attitudes that often differ from the succeeding generation. In contrast, the succeeding generation represents the future and has the potential to shape the course of society.

What are the antonyms for Succeeding generation?

• n.

  • posterity
  • parent
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  • past
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Famous quotes with Succeeding generation

• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  Thomas Jefferson
• As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point.

  James Truslow Adams
• In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

  Ted Sizer

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