It wasn't like that when I was young

The young generation has practically brought itself up. School discipline, since the abolition of corporal punishment, has become almost nominal; church discipline practically nil; and even home discipline, although retaining the forms, is but an empty shell. The modern child from the age of ten is almost his own boss.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint … As for...