INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER + CREATIVE THINKING = SUSTAINED SUCCESS IN LIFE.

THE OTHER DAY my friend's sixteen year old daughter, a student of grade eleven came back home,slightly ill at ease and thoughtful. As over refreshments, she was talking about her day in school,she talked about an issue which the students' collectively wanted to publish in the local edition of a national daily, the Principal of the school agreed with the validity of the issue but said, that still the students should refrain from going ahead with their plans, no direct reasons were forthcoming but he ended the meeting with students with a concerned remark-"Children in these times truth is not valued, these days deceit has become part of the social system. You can't have 100% truth."
Perplexing, this remark was for most students.They were aware of corruption and other issues in society but all this coming from their headmaster had left them shaken.
What made the Head master make this remark? Was it that whatever he had achieved in life was on a bedrock, other than truth? Or he started life with Utopian ideas but somewhere he lost it, and wanted his students to be realists?
Would you call him an Educationist, a Broker of values- selling them for profit or convenience or a Realist- what use is utopia in life, or would you use something else to describe him?

Do post in your views- looking forward to them.