Here's an observation for you. How often do we tend to sit and judge young people today? We think that their impetuousness, rudeness and failure to follow rules is unique to our generation. Were we any better? Apparently not. Look at these quotes and then check out the date:
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.” Hesiod 700BC
"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 at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates 460BC
"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
Who wrote that, and when do you think it was written?... it is an extract from a sermon preached by Peter the Hermit in A.D. 1274!
I have a lot of faith in the youth of today and take for example the group of students that coordinated 2,000 fellow students within 24 hours to help with the Christchurch Earthquake. They had to cordinate and arrange luches for these students and they did it in a 24 hour time span, pretty amazing really.
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.” Hesiod 700BC
"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 at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates 460BC
"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
Who wrote that, and when do you think it was written?... it is an extract from a sermon preached by Peter the Hermit in A.D. 1274!
I have a lot of faith in the youth of today and take for example the group of students that coordinated 2,000 fellow students within 24 hours to help with the Christchurch Earthquake. They had to cordinate and arrange luches for these students and they did it in a 24 hour time span, pretty amazing really.
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