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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7771762" data-attributes="member: 6796661">"I, the wise, why am I bound to the ignorant youths?"From a Summerian poetic essay, translated and discussed in Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1956) from Chapter 15 "Suffering and Submission: The First 'Job'". Available at <a href="https://archive.org/details/Kramer1956HistoryBeginsAtSumer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Kramer1956HistoryBeginsAtSumer</a>"And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks."Plato (c. 429-347 B.C.E), "Phaedrus" (c. 360 B.C.E.), 274c-275 b, R(eginald) Hackforth, transl., 1952.“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.”Scientific AmericanJuly, 1858“Cinemas and motor cars were blamed for a flagging interest among young people in present-day politics by ex-Provost JK Rutherford… [He] said he had been told by people in different political parties that it was almost impossible to get an audience for political meetings. There were, of course, many distractions such as the cinema…”Young People and Politics, Kirkintilloch Herald1938</blockquote>

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