ABSTRACT

There is no need for me to describe the conventional idea of right and wrong. In an environment (mother, family, home, cultural group, school, etc.) this is good, that is not good. Children fit in their own ideas so as to comply, or else they rebel and hold the opposite view in some or other respect. Gradually this state of affairs is altered because complexity makes nonsense of it or else the child becomes mature in respect of having established a sense of self, and a right to have a personal view of everything. The mature child s till likes or needs to be able to check up against the accepted code, even if only to know how things stand as between him or her and the community. This is a permanent feature, characteristic even of mature adults.