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FYI, that is not a Socrates quote.

> It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times.

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/



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