Nevermind.
"ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.
Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953).
This passage was very popular in the 1960s and its essence was used by
the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street
demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3,
1966, p. 16. This use prompted Malcolm S. Forbes to write an editorial
on youth.?Forbes, April 15, 1966, p. 11. In that same issue, under the
heading 'Side Lines,' pp. 5?6, is a summary of the efforts of
researchers and scholars to confirm the wording of Socrates, or Plato,
but without success. Evidently, the quotation is spurious."
Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html
Interestingly, there is a real quote from Plato's Republic which,
while not as punchy as the fake one, makes a similar point about the
idleness of youth:
"The democratic youth . . . lives along day by day, gratifying the
desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the
flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practising
gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes
spending his time as though he were occupied."
Having read enough Plato I knew that quote was fabricated. It only took one search to find that out. Why am I not surprised that some psychologists, in the 1950s, got away with making shit up? Can't do that today. Thanks to the Internet.
I have had to quote sections of various writings by Plato (in an academic setting). You quote the exact text, by title, and the line, and then the page, along with the edition and translation. When there was no attribution to a particular text (The Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus, Euthydemus, Aplogy) it was obvious to me the quote was fraudulent.
No philosophy scholar claims to quote anything from Socrates. Socrates left no written work behind, or at least none that is extant. Every attribution made about Socrates comes from his student, Plato. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato