“…there is one fault in the present system of bringing up [children] ..is the fact that there is too much ease, pleasure and sport and youth has too much money…and too many opportunities to gratify their desire for pleasure….they would be more skilled …and succeed in business, if life was not so easy for them and they did not have so many opportunities for wasting time in material pleasures.
To those who want to get on in life and want to be successful, concentrate your ambitions and ability on the better things in life, which are infinitely more important than the frivolous things that appeal so readily to youth in this country.”*
* Sydney Myer
Governing Director of the Myer Emporium
Extract from an address to Swinburne students in the 1931 June edition of Open Door, the College Magazine
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Sounds like something I heard someone say on the train the other morning ... obviously people's perceptions of the frivolity of youth have changed little over the years. No doubt I will hear myself saying the same VERY soon as I approach my quarter-century ... :-)
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