Neither of those are true, not in any systemic sense.
Some old people love to grouse about how Things Were Better Then, and how Children Used To Respect Authority. It's been that way for millennia.
You ever read Heinlein? Back in the 1950s, his "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" complained about how schools were too touchy-feely, intent more on having students feel good than providing a good education.
'Some old people love to grouse about how Things Were Better Then, and how Children Used To Respect Authority...'
I don't know if things were better then but (as a kid in the 70's) we certainly respected authority because the threat of physical violence was a real one.
I am not saying that was a good thing by the way, just explaining.
Was he right? Maybe school in the 50s was much more touchy-feely than in the 40s. After the Great Depression and a couple of World Wars, maybe there was a regression to the mean.
eesmith|8 years ago
Some old people love to grouse about how Things Were Better Then, and how Children Used To Respect Authority. It's been that way for millennia.
You ever read Heinlein? Back in the 1950s, his "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" complained about how schools were too touchy-feely, intent more on having students feel good than providing a good education.
dazc|8 years ago
I don't know if things were better then but (as a kid in the 70's) we certainly respected authority because the threat of physical violence was a real one.
I am not saying that was a good thing by the way, just explaining.
saint_fiasco|8 years ago