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διδάσκαλός τε ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ φοιτητὰς φοβεῖται καὶ θωπεύει, φοιτηταί τε διδασκάλων ὀλιγωροῦσιν, οὕτω δὲ καὶ παιδαγωγῶν: καὶ ὅλως οἱ μὲν νέοι πρεσβυτέροις ἀπεικάζονται καὶ διαμιλλῶνται καὶ ἐν λόγοις καὶ ἐν ἔργοις, οἱδὲ γέροντες συγκαθιέντες τοῖς νέοις εὐτραπελίας τε καὶ χαριεντισμοῦ ἐμπίμπλανται, μιμούμενοι τοὺς νέους, ἵνα δὴ μὴ δοκῶσιν ἀηδεῖς εἶναι μηδὲ δεσποτικοί.
And, in such a situation [when individuals in democracies become intoxicated with too much freedom], the teacher fears the students and coddles them and the students contemn their teachers and likewise anyone else placed in charge of them. And altogether the young assume the roles of their elders and battle them with both words and deeds, and their elders, kowtowing to the young, accommodate and graciously oblige them to the fullest degree, mimicking the young, in order that they themselves may not seem disagreeable and despotic.
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Plato, Republic, 563B
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