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Article #625385Re: Education--kids were dumb back in 1961
From: Quadibloc
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 05:50
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 05:50
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On Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 10:24:36 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote: > On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 2:34:39 PM UTC-6, ma...@mail.com wrote: > > On 2018-07-21, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > > > > I often hear oldsters complain, "when I was a kid we could do > > > math in our head" (among many other feats they could accomplish). > > > > Yet back in 1961 there were complaints that young people--today's > > > oldsters--were just as inept as people complain today. > > > There is that story about an ancient text that translates as > > "Young people have no respect for their elders any more." > > Good old Ipuwer. On the other hand, another version of this - sometimes attributed to Plato or Socrates - turns out to have been spurious: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/ John Savard
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