Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority;
they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise;
they no longer rise when elders enter the room;
they contradict their parents, chatter before company;
gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.
--Socrates, Fifth Century B.C.
6 comments:
I sooo agree with you. My parents are always shocked by the ways my boys talk back at me. In those days, I would have been punished big time.
Clearly, some things never change, even after 1,000's of years!
So it started way back then.......
LOL! I was nodding my head, saying, "Yes! Totally! What's wrong with kids today?!", only to get a dose of reality - I MUST have been the same way when I was younger, especially if Socrates remarked on it a light year ago! ;-)
Well, I'm not sure if it's any comfort to know teens were like that ages and ages ago but at least things aren't getting any worse, right? LOL
I heard this years ago, it's great! You think, "oh yes, teenagers today are TERRIBLE...!" and then comes the SOCRATES. Hmmm, must be a Human Condition thing? x
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