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

I TALKED ABOUT CERTAIN comments of a school headmaster regarding honesty in my post on 26 August , I'm still waiting for your comments; in the meantime I feel on this issue that we cannot talk about basic values like truth and honesty in such a wishy-washy supposedly 'realistic' way.We cannot afford to give our children such a wet clay of values, to be moulded based on circumstances. Values should be like the rock of Gibraltar. What children face in life, and how this rock of values gets chiseled into a beautiful statue or weathers away ,will depend on what they learn from their mistakes, and the choices they make in life; but the wet clay of values would be of no value. Probably 'real world values' are imparted to children to save them from making mistakes and to shield them from resultant pain.But can there be any growth without pain? Can there be any durable and wholesome learning without the pain of making mistakes and has any learning been as wholesome and as long lasting as learning from mistakes. Should we or can we shield the children from this pain?