A child is what we make of him and what he sees of us—elders. He can never learn by our criticisms but the examples we give to him. A child needs models is evident from our lay research and survey of the last two generations. This study will confirm us that a child continuously learns from what he sees and from what is said to him.
Each younger generation is such a true picture of his senior generation that there has to be no scope of discussions to the effect of models set for the young. Whatever model the children have in front of them, they just inherit all the qualities thereof.
The parents are their role models, and they follow them implicitly, without any change. So, no matter how much the same parents and other adults or society cares to criticize them, flour them or mock at them, they will not change, or to say they cannot change. Why blame them? They are following the role models in front of them. Does this not go to prove that children need and only use models to copy, and that no amount of criticism can mould them?
We have to remember that the child must be taught what is right by means of moral lessons, but that would not be enough; this must be followed by showing what is right by a live example by elders around the child. Even the latest and modern techniques of teaching and education lay stress on audio-visual aids, which goes to confirm that the child learns more and better by what he sees around by way of examples in front of him, and what he hears in the world of elders. No amount of lecturing and ordering can imbibe in the child any value of life. A child learns all that he sees and nothing that he is ordered.
Vocabulary
Evident—clear
Imbibe—induce