Ironically, that's almost certainly not attributable to Socrates (or Plato), but instead from a thesis written in 1907: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01

Ironically, that's almost certainly not attributable to Socrates (or Plato), but instead from a thesis written in 1907: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children... Maybe if we had all had better humanities classes, we'd know that :)