The purport of the above aphorism is that the
potential and possibility of tomorrow’s man is latent in
today’s child. In other words, it is his childhood
which shows what kind of a man the child will be in
the future.
Just as the morning shows the day, so the childhood
shows the ensuing manhood.
The epigram can be interpreted in two ways. If a man
is destind to be great or notorious in future, it
can be understood by observing his childhood behaviour;
and the other possible interpretation is that,
the way a child is brought up determines what he will
become in the future. Obviously, the two
