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"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children ar
by arkitaip 9y ago
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
-- Some Greek Guy, like really long time ago.
- point78 9y agoToo funny, literally since the beginning of time every generation has been complaining about "those damn kids"!!
- barsonme 9y agoI'm just relaying the perceptions of a teacher who's been teaching children since the '80s ;-)
- shpx 9y ago[This quote] was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoStill aging quite well to show the relativity (or constant) of people's perceptions