And when we talk about human resource development which is very much in the foreground these days, we first think of the young people who must not only be educated, but also be given the opportunity to grow and develop both physically and psychologically in a decent and wholesome society.
Basic education is compulsory in all countries, that goes without saying.
But each society supplements formal education with other informal methods of bringing up children and youths. They must be provided with a proper environment, and instilled with a sense of decency and integrity which can come only if they have been endowed with a proper world outlook and a system of sound value judgements. All this partly comes from our inherited cultural and moral traditions. But being intangible and abstract, they become atrophied if not pursued and kept alive not to mention their propensity to come under the influence of the more raucous and mercenary external cultural influences that now bombard us through the information highway. Young people are basically innocent, intelligent, idealistic and and also tend to be romantic.