Radio Times magazine subscription holders can read Joanna Lumley's views on the younger generation in the latest issue.
The 64-year-old actress said she thinks British children today have "slack" morals and suggested that they need to take on more responsibility, like youngsters in developing nations.
"We are very slack with our moral codes for children these days. Nowadays, children find it laughably amusing to shoplift and steal," she told the publication.
"We smile when they download information from the internet and lazily present it as their own work. We allow them to bunk off school and bring in sick notes."
The former Ab Fab star added that she would ban laptops in schools so children learn to think independently.
Joanna, along with fellow Brit actress Helen Mirren, will be looking back to their own childhoods by reading classic girls' school tales on BBC Radio 4 this month.
She will be voicing Enid Blyton's The Cheat, while Dame Helen will take on A Midnight Revel by Angela Brazil.
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Posted by Tori Gibson
