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.
So they are easily gullible and impressed. As far as I can remember, when Myanmar was under British colonial rule, there were organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides with the then Governor and his lady as Patrons. They even had clubs for the younger children like the Cubs for the boys and Bluebirds for the girls. It was their intention to inculcate loyalty to British rule in Myanmar youths and to accustom them to a way of life as second class British citizens. It was their unspoken intention to erase Myanmar traditions and customs and the Myanmar way of life.