Education intrinsically demands the application of correct standards. However, if these standards fail to bring forth progress, the educator may surrender to frustration. This anger tends to wound the very relationship it intends to refine. A child may retaliate, “My father enforces stringent standards on me, yet he himself fails to uphold these rules.” Consequently, a father and son wound each other, causing their relationship to deteriorate. In ancient times, people solved this conundrum by exchanging children for their education, hence removing the risk of reciprocal blame between parent and child. When blame, in the pursuit of betterment, becomes the dominant narrative, it seeds a divide between a father and his son – a most regrettable outcome. (Mencius)