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Article #625386Re: Education--kids were dumb back in 1961
From: J. Clarke
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 02:05
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 02:05
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:50:07 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >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/ On the other hand one suspects that the sentiment predates writing. While not worded in the same way, if there wasn't a problem with kids respecting their parents, why would one of the Commandments be "Honor thy father and thy mother"? > >John Savard
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