I also agree. The generation of people just behind me are some of the most intelligent, well informed, balanced and mature people I met. I was speaking to a 19 year old who had RRSP savings, an investment account, and was just starting up his own company. These are people who grew up with the internet in full swing and I think it has a direct impact on them.
On the flip side, I also met a 19 year old (in the army oddly enough) who had a number of physical assault charges, drunk driving, a sexual assault charge, and last I heard he was caught smoking drugs in the shacks. This was over a three year period that I knew him. Growing up, I had not met anyone who came close to that level of messed up...and he has a job.
It's like Lt.Col. Dave Grossman (Guy who wrote 'On Killing') said in a lecture: 'The kids today are really really good. It has to be one of the brightest and most focused generation in our history. On the flip side, the bad kids today are really really bad! They are some of the worst kids ever seen. And they are scaring the hell out of the good kids. One day, the good kids are going to clean house. It's in the cards.' (paraphrased)