Children acquire values, attitudes and skills from their parents and teachers.
Information technology has taken over the role of the family in giving values to many children. Mathematicians and scientists are fearless in the search for truth, as distinct from the obedience to custom, dogma and habit. Parents and teachers who do not possess a mathematical and scientific value system cannot be expected to transmit same to children. Children are born mathematicians and scientists. Their parents and teachers kill their natural inborn curiosity.