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Allegedly Socrates, attributed to Plato: "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love
by ahoyhere 18y ago
Allegedly Socrates, attributed to Plato:
"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."
(the source of the quote may be contentious, but with a little cursory searching I was able to find it being attributed to Socrates (via Plato) as far back as the late 1800s, so... it's still surely not new.)