‘If children acquire the values of goodness, you don't have to discipline the adults’.

These wise words are attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Many of us have yet to appreciate the imperative of children, and all citizens, acquiring the values of goodness.  Having been put down so long and so cruelly in history, we define goodness as the freedom to do what we can get away with; to pursue personal goals irrespective of others’ needs.

For many, self-restraint resembles slavery, postponing gratification is imprisonment, debauchery replaces modesty, exhibitionism masquerades as self-affirmation.