In Reply to: Re: I kept thinking about this quote as I drove home listening to that story. posted by JoeII-K on February 11, 2000 at 12:48:02:
***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...
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- Survived? They were crashed! - Victor Khomenko 15:43:20 02/11/00 (1)
- Re: Survived? They were crashed! - JoeII-K 12:36:54 02/12/00 (0)