A society which lacks standards of excellence and exemplary role models, produces an environment where superior achievements of personal character diminish. Emphasis on cultivation of behavioural characteristics, important in their social context, such as truthfulness, sense of honour, integrity, altruism, industriousness, decency, courageousness, self-restraint and even intelligence, declines in the home and school. Hence nobility, the human characteristic that embodies such ideals and is itself idealistic, diminishes.