Yet, if the firm seems to be an area of retreat, the family is a philosophical disaster area. Men and women who are personally committed to the idea of the moral superiority of the voluntary market and private ownership seem incapable of grasping the parental role of imparting their faith to their children. The family is the training ground for children in every sphere of their young lives. It would seem to be a moral problem with the child, not an intellectual one. That is why the authority of the parent is so vital in getting the child to acknowledge the validity of both of these interlocked concepts.
Children learn at astonishing rates of speed.
All parents take pride in this fact, yet not one parent in a hundred really seems to understand just how fast his child does learn. At times they seem to affect stupidity in order to better expedite their conniving. Parents who fail to see the signs of an infant's con job only confirm the child in any lack of respect he may have for the family. Children see and they remember differences between stated principles and demonstrated action. That is a child's means of survival, and he learns it very well and very early.