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158 [daughter’s] way of doing things is not similar to [ the way of] other girl s and so she [the mother] may cooperate with the college to try to reform her daughter. ” Your Mothers S hould b e I nvited to t he Graduation Ceremonies First, this occasion should be regarded as an opportunity to invite the girls ’ mothers and her other female elders so that they can check their daughters ’ progress and see their school life. They can work with your institution to improve and guide their g irls. At the moment, I am under the impression that schoolgirls have been invited along with the college girls and a few other selected women whom they considered appropriate [to invite]. Whereas the girls ’ mothers and female elders should have been invited to this occasion before anyone else , so they could come here, witness their daughter ’ s education, their training , their work and determine if their girls are progressing academically. The second benefit of this interaction is that the parents and relatives develop a regard for the school or college. T hirdly, when they are familiar with their daughter’s academic life, they no lo nger feel alienated from them. E ven though their daughters are behind the walls of the school, they still see them. After this introduction, I w ish to draw the administration ’s as well as the students ’ attention to what I just stated ; that traditions are very necessary. T raditions safeguard a person’s future and can transform a person’s life as well. Everyone in the world is descended from one person, or in other words, Adam as. Even scientific theories concede that all tribes and nations have descended from one race , i f not the w hole world. T he n at least by studying some tribes and race s, it is found that some tribes are considere d brave and some lack courage. Now, t he question is why are some brave and some cowardly? For instance, it is popular about Bengali and Kashmiri nation s that they are not fighters. B oth are descendants of Adam as in the same way as Pathans , Rajputs , and M u g ha ls etc. Kashmiris and Pathans [ people belonging to the Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan ] are the same race, but are two different branches. One branch, the Pathans, are brave and the other, the Kashmiris, lack courage. That is also true in Bengal, where so me tribes are strong fighters. Now, i f you take any race as an example, you will have to accept that from among the