can anyone tell me the meaning of this quote?

Question

"Children today are tyrants.They contradict their parents,gobble their food,and tyrannize their teachers"

Answer 1

Society has allowed the children to take control. Their is a reason children are not supposed to be in control, it is because they lack self control and are selfish. Children are not supposed to be told no today, if you do they lose control and do what children do, have tantrums.

So many things are wrong with this picture, but parents need to learn to take back control, very soon. Blessings.

Answer 2

This is actually a fake quote, allegedly pronounced by Socrates.

The full quote is supposedly this:
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277 (1953).

This passage was very popular in the 1960s and its essence was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16.

This use prompted Malcolm S. Forbes to write an editorial on youth.—Forbes, April 15, 1966, p. 11. In that same issue, under the heading “Side Lines,” pp. 5–6, is a summary of the efforts of researchers and scholars to confirm the wording of Socrates, or Plato, but without success. Evidently, the quotation is spurious.

Answer 3

This is either a quote meant to discourage the amount of trust and responsibility an adult gives a kid or it is someone giving their two cents about how they feel about children in general, obviously a feeling of great discontempt. Of course there are simplely lumping together a truely diverse population sometimes more so than adults in the world today~ i find many children are better behaved than some adults. If this is homework however the meaning of this assignment is to see how you connect and your views on the matter.

Answer 4

Since this is a quote from Socrates (via Plato), I'm thinking that this shows us that parents have always thought that the next generation seem to be out of control. Personally, I'd like for children to "challenge authority" some of the time.

Answer 5

They get what they want, when they want it, hold their parents hostage to get it. No one else can stand them and they are...yes....spoiled.

But not all of them. Just a lot of them. Good and educated parents will make sure their children do not run the home, earn what privileges they get and understand they are accountable for their actions.

Answer 6

It means that children dont listen to der parents & oppose them. They dont have time for food and eat it in a hurry, and bug their teachers.

Answer 7

Chris Dove and Jamie Lewis asked the same question. You should read the answers side by side.

Answer 8

I think it means that children call the shots and have no respect for laws or guidlines or common courtsey therefore they make terrible rulers.

Answer 9

The children are in charge, not the adults.

Answer 10

it means that the parents are doing thier jobs properly