Passage - Obedience

Study the following essay on obedience.
Obedience

    Children, young men and old men all wish that others should do what they want them to do. Sometimes they say it politely with love, sometimes they say it with threats. This does not mean that they all issue orders. Only elders have the right to issue orders and not the younger ones. Why is it so? Why are the orders issued? What is the objective of issuing orders?

      Elders, parents and teachers have not only the experience of life, but they also care for the younger ones. They want to make the younger once like fully baked pot. For this the raw pot has to be heated. We can call this process of heating as obedience. In fact obedience is the education in good manners and an art of making children mentally mature, which parents and teachers consider to be their basic duty. Therefor we should obey our parents and teachers without any hesitation. The logic behind this is that our parents and teachers can never think of our disadvantage. Even if we suffer due to obedience of their orders, we consider it as some mistake, carelessness or lack of expertise on their part and try to find some advantage in future out of our suffering. So in all eventualities we obey them. Obedience is that lesson in the school of life which brings knowledge to the ignorant and makes an idler a hard worker. Obedience is not learning, it is a step of learning. The future and well being of the person obeying the orders is involved in this. The person issuing orders has no self-interest in it.