The Child is Father of the Man - Wordsworth

Adrea del Sarto, the famous Italian painter (called Faultless Painter) showed artistic skill in his childhood. Me Adam showed an aptitude for the future profession by making a model road section when he was student. Elizabeth Fry was greatly interested in the welfare of others while she was living as a girl in Norfolk. M.A. Jinnah has boundless capability to work. lqbal worked earnestly for the wellbeing of Muslims.

Words worth’s statement does not hold good in the case of all. Shakespeare, Keats, Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and several other famous writers had not shown any literary talent in their childhood. It is circumstances that make or mar one’s life. Among the poor too there are talented children. We are reminded of the ‘mute inglorious Milton’ mentioned by Thomas Gray.

Modern psychoanalysis holds strongly to the view expressed by “Bend the twig, bend the tree” this is what it stresses.