Misra. J. --- 1. Noble Prize Winner Poetess Gabriela Mistral of Chile while speaking about the faults committed by society as regards the children spoke thus:

"We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait, the Child cannot wait Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made and his senses are being developed." To him we cannot answer Tomorrow. His name is To-day." The apex Court in the case of M.C. Mehta v. State of Tamil Nadu [(1996) 6 SCC 756], while speaking about the obligation of the State and Society towards the children in the Indian methods, quoted a stanza which reads thus:

"I am the child.

All the world waits for my coming.

All the earth watches with interest to see what I shall become.

Civilization hangs in the balance.

For what I am, the world of tomorrow will be.

I am the Child.

You hold in your hand my destiny.

You determine, largely, whether I shall succeed or fail:

Give me, I pray you, these things that make for happiness.

Train me. I beg you, that I may be a blessing to the world."

(Mamie Gene Cole)

Long back John Ruskin had expr