[Husker] Mike Leach Suspended by Texas Tech

[Ken Oliver]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
>Sent: Dec 30, 2009 12:22 PM
>To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
>Subject: RE: [Husker] Mike Leach Suspended by Texas Tech
>
>> > Every new crop of students has the outward appearance of being the laziest, most spoiled, most irresponsible, most immature.  Only to be exceeded by next year's class.  Seems to happen every year.
>> > 
>> > Bill Smith
>> > Towson, MD
>
>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, Eighth Century B.C. 

Earlier yet:

           The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, 
       contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and 
       love chatter in place of exercise.  Children now are tyrants,
       not the servants of their households.  They no longer rise 
       when eleders enter the room.  They contradict their parents,
       chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross
       their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Often attributed to Socrates, but the quotation is not from Socrates, who wrote nothing, but is put in the mouth of Socrates by Plato in a dialogue called The Republic c. 350 BC.

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