26th
June
2008
What’s the matter with kids today?
Posted by Margaret on June 26, 2008
posted in Just life |
Remember the song from Bye, Bye, Birdie? The father sings
Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way?
What’s the matter with kids today?
That song, written over 40 years ago by Charles Strause and Lee Adams, came to mind when I read the following quote:
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter inplace of exercise. children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
Guess who said it?
Socrates! (469-399 BCE)