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time we shouldn't forget that someone shoulder's the responsibility for shaping the child's future also.
A very good word is used to describe the parents in English : "Guardian”. Guardian means "he who safeguards”. What can be more important for a guardian than nurturing a child's life?
The word 'discipline' has today lost the significance of its meaning and the word freedom has acquired a new obsession. If every driver on the road formulates his own rules as per his whims and fancy, nobody is safe on the roads, not even the driver himself. The risks and dangers associated with freedom with lack of proper systems should be understood while the freedom that comes alongwith discipline should be appreciated and hence nurtured.
- Experts of moral knowledge, acknowledge the discipline of bad behavior as freedom. There is a nice statement echoing this sentiment : Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
On whose support does the kite fly in the sky ? It flies high only with the support of the string. A fleeting look at the sky may just make you feel that this string is hampering it's flight, but once you release the string just see what happens to the kite. However high the kite flies, its security lies in remaining connected with the string. Discipline has to be understood in this manner. It does not hamper growth but helps to sustain growth and makes it secure.
The wire mesh metal cage like fence surrounding the tree is not it's bondage but its security. The fence should not be so closely entangled with the tree that the growth of the tree is curtailed, but at the same time it should not be so far also such that the tree grows in any haphazard manner. Discipline in this way provides protection to a human being.
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