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).