In Reply to: I kept thinking about this quote as I drove home listening to that story. posted by Victor Khomenko on February 10, 2000 at 13:40:39:
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.
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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)
- 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)