This is Socrates Otter.  He is considered to be the father of Western philosophy, and was rumored to be a pretty decent teacher.  As a teacher, he spent a great deal of time with the youth of Ancient Greece, and here is what he had to say about them: 

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.

So, there you have it.  Teenagers have been assholes who, “gobble up dainties at the table,” for over 2000 years now.  And what was Socrates reward for putting up with this collection of assholes?  Well, he was convicted of “corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens,” and was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock.  I hope those kids ended up with a really shitty subsitute for the rest of the year.

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