On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote: > I cannot off hand give you the source, but I believe it was Socrates, of > course quoted by (and perhaps said by) Plato. It goes like this: > "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."
There may be a good reason why you can't come up with a source. The attribution to Socrates is bogus. See http://www.qis.net/~jschmitz/afu/youth.htm Seems like another case of the "horse's teeth"/Francis Bacon (not!) phenomenon. I'm still looking for the real source of that one. -Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
