"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
— Socrates
This made me laugh because of the obvious parallels with modern life, and the fact that life is always more terrible and dangerous now than it was 'when I were a lad.'
Of course England is safer now than it was fifty years ago, but let's forget that for now.
Anyway, I just administered about thirty students worth of speaking tests for a class. Let me put it this way, if they were stranded in England, they would be dead in under a week. 'What's your name?'
Student 1: 'uhm.'
Student 2: 'ah.'
Student 3: 'hmmm.'
Student 4: 'Like tomato.'
Student 5: 'sah ne.'
Generally, I am not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.
Then again, I should probably record some of these and have awesome quotes for the future.
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