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Do children and adolescents learn from the lives of so called great men?

Question: Do children and adolescents learn from the lives of so called great men? Answer: Answer will have to be 'yes and no' at the same time. Question: Why this question has arisen now? What is the context? Ans: Tirumala Tirupati dEvasthAnam, the largest temple in India, in terms of income, has through its TV channel SVBC, broadcast a program called 'mahanIyata (Greatness)', on 6th July 2012, around 8.00 p.m. The essence of the particular episode was: a boy was deviating from studies and going on errands like films with school and class mates. Parents scold him. His maternal grand father gave some counselling to the boy's parents. The boy goes to his mgf's house and was given a book on Swami vivEkananda. From that very day, the boy makes a turnround, shuns his friends etc. etc. ybrem 1 The boy was in an impressionable age. Boys in impressionable age tend to believe whatever comes before them and form role-models. If they get good models, they become go