“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and chatter in the place of exercise.”
Socrates Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907, summarizing complaints directed against young people in ancient times.
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 children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and chatter in the place of exercise.”
SocratesKenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907, summarizing complaints directed against young people in ancient times.Not a real Socrates quote. It’s very popular to make up this genre of quote.
Oh damn, TIL.
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