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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 Pulcinella 8y 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."
-Plato/Socrates (though incredibly likely this is apocryphal)
- tarr11 8y agoApparently this was not Plato or Socrates. However, the author wrote it in 1909 so the point still stands! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
- neaanopri 8y agoI mean, if we attribute this to the period during the Peloponnesian wars, the kids were definitely not alright. The generation of Athenians after Alcibiades definitely didn't do anything good, and Athens ultimately lost the war.