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I kept thinking about this quote as I drove home listening to that story.

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Victor Khomenko

In Reply to: As a wise man once said... posted by JoeII-K on February 10, 2000 at 09:07:28:

I have heard it million times and it certainly has some truth to it, but there is simply no denying the fact that many generations do have their own flavors.
Understand, that he was talking in RELATIVE terms. People tend to forget it. I am not sure Plato would survive an hour in one of our classrooms today. So you are not getting off the hook that easy...

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Re: I kept thinking about this quote as I drove home listening to that story. JoeII-K 12:48:02 02/11/00 (2)
My thoughts were a bit different. I thought "even in Ancient Greece they had bad schools!". Luckily, Greek civilization survived the mediocrity of some of its' classrooms to last for many centuries after Plato had shuffled of this mortal coil. Will the USA?
There is another great quote by a Roman (Cicero, I think) where he is complaining about the young people of his time having no respect for tradition and authority and being lazy good-for-nothings (I will try and dig it up). Plus ca change, eh?
-Joe.
- Survived? They were crashed! Victor Khomenko 15:43:20 02/11/00 (1)
  ***My thoughts were a bit different. I thought "even in Ancient Greece they had bad schools!". Luckily, Greek civilization survived the mediocrity of some of its' classrooms to last for many centuries after Plato had shuffled of this mortal coil.
  By about 400bc it was all curtains. They killed Socrates. Earlier their mob banished the best and brightest. Not quite an enviable record... kind of like high school bullies taking over the control and banishing the teachers...
  ***Will the USA?
  I think it will... but it will be changed...
  ***There is another great quote by a Roman (Cicero, I think) where he is complaining about the young people of his time having no respect for tradition and authority and being lazy good-for-nothings (I will try and dig it up). Plus ca change, eh?
  Many things are relative, plus the societies come, reach peaks and go...
  - Re: Survived? They were crashed! JoeII-K 12:36:54 02/12/00 (0)
    > By about 400bc it was all curtains. They killed Socrates. Earlier their > mob banished the best and brightest. Not quite an enviable record... kind
    > of like high school bullies taking over the control and banishing the
    > teachers...
    I'm not so sure we are talking about the same thing. The Greek Empire grew and became stronger under Philip of Macedon and of course Alexander the Great, his son. After that, it declined until the Roman invasion, But even under the Romans, Greek civilzation (language, philosophy, art, religeon, etc.) continued until well into the Christian Era.
    -Joe.

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