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and will increase the graceful dignity of our society and nation.
As I am appreciating the age and children of today so as I would make you aware that a lot of attention is paid to the education of children today but no attention is paid to their values, merits and character building. We want to teach our children in a higher institution but we do not care whether there is an arrangement of inculcating the values and manners together with education in that institute or not.
Remember, we people have got sufficient manners and etiquettes from our elders but still today the brothers are not living together. There is no sweet relation between a daughter-in-law and a mother-in-law. No son wants to live with his father after getting married. Imagine what will happen with the generation of today? A child is made to lie before the television set even at the age of six yrs. because his mother has to cook food. The child becomes silent to watch the colorful scenes on the screen and the mother completes her work. The child of six months grows older by watching the T.V. and becomes matured by the age of ten years. You know that a child has been able to watch more than 2 lacs of scenes of violence and more than fifty thousands of scenes of sex and rape on the T.V. screen even before he attains the age of maturity. Now think, how mature and horrible will he be in his grown up age?
The age is changed but towards decline. Earlier, there was a great piousness in the relation but now no one can be trusted. A gentle lady told me that there is a hotel near her house and when she comes to know and see the scenes taking place there, she feels embarrassed and ashamed. She told me that girls and boys came there. The girls have scooties and the boys own cars. The girls park their scooties there and go in the cars with the boys. It is not exaggerated to say that they come there in during their school or college
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