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Originally Posted by Czymra
"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.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.
Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."
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Thats right, and Sparta beat Athens because the kids who formed the army were too soft. Oh and another thing, pray do show me where it said kids don't know where their food comes from or what a cow or sheep is.
