Children Now a Days......

I was talking to my dad and he was telling me that he was talking to someone that was close to my age and that that person didn't know who John Wayne was. It started me thinking about kids now-a-days and not just kids young adult and even some people that are over 30yrs. I am not saying that they are uneducated, OK well sometimes yea they are but lets not talk about that path. I am talking about classics, why don't these people know where or who the classic actors and musicians are? I have been raising my nephew like he was my own and the I don't let him watch a lot of movies with violence or that a deem unacceptable. Granted I am a bit old school, but one thing I do pride myself in is for him to know where the base of a lot of music or movies come from. For example when he was younger I introduced him to classical music, Beethoven, Mozart, then each generation up. He knows who Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Santana, well I think you get the point.My nephew is 9 years old he knows who John Wayne is, Chuck Norris, Vincent Price, even Alfred Hitchcock. So my question to you is why don't parents teach their kids about the classics. People now just think of what is in now but do they know who started the terror in movies or who started the multi-media effects. Be honest do you know? You can ask my boy he knows, Vincent Price was the first to introduce terror, Orson Welles was the first to use the camera on a dolly to move it around and also used shadowing and angling. He was the one who started the who thing because of him we have such great movies now and great directors. I am not saying I know a lot about this stuff but I do know enough and what I know I am telling my boy. I just wish that other parents felt the same as I about teaching their kids about the classics of any subject. Either way I am proud of my boy and what he knows, since he was 5 yrs old he has played chess, he listens to any type of music especially the older and most of the times he loves it and most of all he give classic cinema a chance. I can easily bet that he is more openly cultured then any other 4rth grader there is.