1.idealistic childhood

i am perplexed at everything around me it seems, the debate of idealist vs a realist is an eternal one and i believe, no one group can assert its complete dominance over the other.Btw let me clear my stand at the outset to relieve many of the respective believers who would much more be concerned with what a famous opponent would say then a no one like me.I would like to believe myself to be an idealist and would try to convince others with the words of argument to present my viewpoints.
Also idealist with respect to what you may ask, basically capitalism would be a good point to start with.
Any child who is born free and encouraged to do so or rather left on his own would be assuming a world where everything is good, hunky dory with out any bad people .The world is full of chocolates, the sun, the trees, the rivers, the breeze, the bubbles in his bathtub,endless.As he grows old, he would realise that there are few grey areas, domestic violence, big brats beating up the smaller ones, the poor beggar asking alms,road side accident may be or may be theft at the near by store etc, i know i am all imagining things up.But the point i am trying to make is that even as a child we as human species can observe certain wrong doings, wrong things, wrong sayings, wrong acts of nature to give the tiny little body of a kid a tiny little jolt to come out of that idealistic world that we as a kid cover ourselves with.Also many kids are also not that lucky, i mean if you are born in a migrant laborer in India then your change of mobility , leave aside mobility your chance of survival and then chance of growing up a healthy child afterwards is abysmally low or a child born in conflict ridden areas of "the horn of africa" where mothers have to teach their children one of the most difficult lessons in life 'how to control your hunger when you are hungry' or a child in born in mine affected areas of vietnam, courtsey USA's fear psychosis of spread of socialism in that country where US had to somehow enter the war and kill even its own citizens and of course more so the vietnamese (even leading thinkers like chomsky believe it was an unjust war) , here the vietnamese child has the luxury of one or more of its limbs short due to a mishap of blowing up a limb while playing in a mine infected area unknowingly with absolutely no fault of theirs or may be a child born in bolivia's slum poverty prevailing area, one of the poorest countries of south america or a child born in north korea (i need not go into what happens there, brain washed squeaky clean children with propagandist ideology being ingrained into the naive, innocent, vulnerable minds )
If somehow you escape being born in a family in such places in the world , in fact there are much more such places in the world then the well to do families and also you need to have a conducive environment at home, at school, good friends to stimulate discussions then you could be able to think independently, rationally, logically, secularly, thinking on egalitarian thoughts, equality, justice , moral..this list is also endless, of good desirable qualities.I mean this sort of jargon wouldn't seem to concern a small kid you would say, all i am saying is you need not learn exactly the terms but you learn by examples or other ways to imbibe certain principles like this , let me give you an example to argue my point, since childhood we are taught to share( mostly food, may be books etc) , is it not a quality of egalitarianism is it not a quality of equality.
So to reiterate my point, if we are born in a relatively secure environment with adequate protection and a environment where there is stimulus and resource for education, health etc. , then a child can question questions, the child can put a why behind every facts he have learned, a child can put forth a view which is entirely fresh or a new perspective to a conventionally accepted opinion, in a way this is where i believe, something new is discovered or a new way of thinking is emerged, in turn changing the direction of an entire civilisation in some cases, this might seem a way bit out of the top to some, if not too much out of the top,but how do you think a civilisation develops in most societies, the incas, the aztecs, the harappas, the chinese, the greeks, the roman etc etc.I believe one of the most crucial aspects of a civilization to prosper is to excel in fields like education which in turn leads to excelling in many other fields like science, manufacturing, social science, astronomy, mathematics etc and this can only happen when there is peace and peaceful intellectually stimulating environment, i mean if you are all the time at war defending your borders and defeating newer ones how do you expect thinkers , mathematicians, artists, writers, intellectual to flourish and this can only happen if you can well educated right from childhood.This doesn't in any way imply that a person not educated in childhood can't achieve greatness or cannot be a part of the intellectual elite, but having a childhood education certainly enhances the chance to become one.
So free, independent education in childhood is one of the key factors in a society to become better society itself.In fact, a society can be measured of its greatness simply by the system of eduction being prevalent and quality of education being propagated to the next generation.
This relatively idealistic ideas ingrained naturally then slowly but surely starts to erode with growing in age and slowly but surely bogs down with the burdens of life...cont.