Please explain what the moral of this is

The 19-year-old from Tukwila, Wash., who spent two years in a Cambodian monastery because his mother was desperate to stop his self-destructive behavior, is not prone to deep philosophical meditation these days.He doesn't work very hard to resist the desires of most young men his age, nor does he seek humility at every turn.
It took surprisingly little time, family members say, for him to turn back into a regular American young man after his return from Cambodia a little more than a year ago.

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I guess I just don't know what the parents expected.

I'll give 'em credit for inovation if nothing else. He does seem to be staying out of trouble, so something must have worked, if not quite as well as the 'rents were hoping.

They changed the environment and allowed the child the time to mature and grow as a person without all the idiots around him that were there before. Smart move.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make them think.

If you remove a chav from its posse it has to think for its self.

MonKey

Chav - Urban Dictionary.