Most people think that their generation was better, nicer, smarter than the new generation. The following is what many of the current generation think :
“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.”
The above is a quote from Socrates, that is over 2000 years ago.
The quote attributed to Socrates sounds really good. But unfortunately although several sources attribute it to Socrates, it was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. The words he used were later slightly altered to yield the modern version. In fact, more than one section of his thesis has been excerpted and then attributed classical luminaries. Here is the original text [CAMB]:
The counts of the indictment are luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise. …
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/
I completely disagree. I believe that the newer generation is better than us in every respect. We just have poor memories and the past always seems rosier that it really was. If there were any doubts at all, they were laid to rest by what I received from Freia, my 18 year old. She learnt more in a summer than I had learnt in a few decades.
Its said a picture speaks a thousand words. Sometimes a picture of a few wise words speaks a million.
“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.”
The above is a quote from Socrates, that is over 2000 years ago.
The quote attributed to Socrates sounds really good. But unfortunately although several sources attribute it to Socrates, it was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. The words he used were later slightly altered to yield the modern version. In fact, more than one section of his thesis has been excerpted and then attributed classical luminaries. Here is the original text [CAMB]:
The counts of the indictment are luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise. …
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/
Its said a picture speaks a thousand words. Sometimes a picture of a few wise words speaks a million.
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