Time Setting

My targeted mission is not to miss valuable time in the years ahead of me that I would otherwise regret it at a period of senility as a lost opportunity. If one is reluctant to share one’s life experience with those who equally feel and deserve it in the nick of time, the proper up-bringing of our children and grand-children as descent elements of society, would certainly be an unfortunate case.
Learning a new thing in youth will never vanish into thin air. It sticks. This again is not something left to any particular section of society, or is it a matter belonging to a formal institution of learning. A new thing observed or acquired in youth, be it in the house, in the neighborhood, at school, or anywhere one sets foot on, is hardly to be forgotten. In the majority of cases, a thing that has entered the head at the age of four or so is never forgotten at any age ahead, be it twenty times that prime age, if ever a person is to live that long.
Sometimes I make an auto criticism on what I say or write whenever I am in the best of mood. Why do some people dare to spit or urinate in the broad light of day in front of you? Is it really out of scornfulness or out of ignorance? Most likely one would vote for ignorance. If a child of four observes his/her father passing urine in the alley of his/her village, for granted that observation would stick in the child’s brain as an accepted way of life. If a boy or a girl of the same age observes his or her mother cleaning her teeth with a stick and spitting now and again anywhere on the ground, no wonder if any one of them, at any later age, takes it as an accepted and civilized habit.
I sense it a high time for our society to bring a change in habit formation through education, to do away with the bad habits that part of society has bequeathed to its own children. I think it is time, too, that making a different approach to life and to cause a change of habit in the youth through education, where ever it takes place, be it in the cottage, the residence, the play ground, in the farm or at school, by telling them spitting or urinating, or doing some other odd things in front of people or in the streets or at the corner of hedges is awfully bad.
For sure, it is certain that habits and behaviors would change through material development. Nonetheless, every primary school’s curriculum should include moral programs that would tell children as early as the age of four to get rid of bad habits and to grasp the good ones. If a child at this age is consciously told, no matter what his father or mother practices, that kind of a habit is bad, he or she is certain to grasp and grow up with the changes. You bet and would not be surprised to see that child re-educating his or her own parents to revisit their old habits and to follow the correct path. The new approach of child up-bringing can take place any where on the land, in the rural and in the urban enclave. It could be the religious school of the village, in the house or in any other public places.
One thing that is to be underlined in this respect is the need of society’s persistence to make such requirement of change a national program. It requires an early time setting to saw its seeds for an assured but gradual harvest of its yields.
It is convincing that the prevailing wrong habits demonstrated mainly by grown up men can be improved gradually through fast urbanization process that is taking place and through the application of restraining rules without becoming much of a headache. Nonetheless, not to spare the rod and spoil the child, the civilizing mission of society should be extended formally to every child wherever one is available, through conscious time-setting with public and civic organizations taking the lead.