In the 1950s, cars became very important, they were necessary for going to school, shopping and traveling to other cities, which made families moving to the suburbs popular. Television and radios helped the music become widely known, and with today's lasting influences, it's strange not to wonder where it all began. Adolescents are an often overlooked phenomenon in every historical generation, but one that has a significant impact. Youth culture refers to the set of norms, values ​​and practices recognized and shared by members of adolescent society. And in the 1960s, as nearly 70 million baby boomers became teenagers and entered high school and college, the segregated culture and music created for teenagers emphasized a social conformity. Although the reasons for the radical change in youth culture are countless, I would like to focus on three important things that affect every generation of teenagers. The education they receive, the music that influences them and the self-expression of young people. Many high schools began offering college preparatory courses to train some children to become doctors, officers, and mechanics (Goodwin). But in the 1960s, students took a stand against segregation, restrictions on free speech and the Vietnam War. The students believed they were creating a new America with the most dramatic challenges to American policies and conventions. The problems of high schools, discovered in the 1950s, were addressed in books such as The American High School Today by James B. Conant. And according to him, returning to basic thinking skills was seen as the solution. In elementary schools across the country, phonics made a comeback as teachers and reading specialists tried to fix what was wrong with American education in the 1950s. In... middle of paper ...... and I live with people their age a lot. Although increasingly segregated, teenagers in the 1960s joined adults as consumers, and when technological advances helped separate rock and roll from adult pop music, record producers associated the rebellion of young people to rock music. Countercultures became the norm with additional influences from Eastern religion, social radicalism, and evangelical beliefs on drugs. The 1969 Woodstock excursion has become a lifestyle for some people. This all represents the society we have today, good or bad, we grow and change because of how we are raised and what happens around us as we learn to live in this crazy world. To me, this era proves that adults aren't always the ones who know best and that sometimes taking a stand for what you believe in is the only thing you can do, whether it's popular or not...