ABSTRACT
People are used to educating their children the way their ancestors did, without the slightest encouragement for critical thinking and development. This is the way of a people who worship their traditions and regard them as a means of honouring their ancestors and as a symbol of their identity. They believe that to lose these traditions would result in a loss of that identity. Yet, in the course of time, other factors that consolidate the spirit of the nation are added to them and as they are gladly accepted by people they, in turn, become fixed traditions. And so customs spread and are adhered to blindly. While they may be all good and useful, the fact that people misinterpret them and blindly imitate them out of self-delusion as a result of a general decline in the nation, vitiates the very meaning of these traditions, whose beneficial influence is subsequently lost.
