The reduction of an ill temper will provide an exact measurement of the growth of wisdom. When parents, spiritual leaders or teachers possess a character flaw with their temperament, the growth of wisdom may cease for the director and/or the directed. The growth of wisdom is reliant on the disposition of the individual.
             The intellectual growth of a child will come to an abrupt end when parents do not utilize proper patience and temperament. When a child approaches his or her parents with a crisis regardless of the degree, the immediate disposition of the parents will have a lasting effect on the willingness of the child to acquire wisdom. Children look to their parents for guidance and instruction. If parents are impatient or haughty, the child will recognize this defect and react negatively. A scenario would be a child trying to perform a task that has been gone over repeatedly. The child struggles. The parents react impatiently and get upset. The child's reaction is to lose interest of the task. The parents have not educated the child. The parents gain no wisdom for future appointments with the child. The child's mind may be defected. Disposition is the key factor for parents trying to expand their own wisdom as well as their children's.
             The spiritual wisdom of clerics and their subjects depend entirely on the positive disposition of the cleric. An impatient cleric will soon become an ill-tempered cleric. Clerics must be willing to understand a person's belief. People have faith in what they believe because of their culture, personal experiences and lack of knowledge of other ideas. Try to make a dog meow or a cat bark. People will become confused or angry at a biased cleric and their relationship will end. At this point, a cleric's subject has not obtained any wisdom. The cleric may believe his idea is correct, but he has gained nothing because of a closed mind. The only accomplishme
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