علم پرورش بچگان
The compound noun phrase علم پرورش بچگان denotes the science and the art of child rearing, the systematic and the comprehensive body of the knowledge, the principles, the methods, and the practices that pertain to the care, the upbringing, the education, the moral and the psychological development, and the overall well-being of the children from the moment of their birth, and even from the period of their gestation in the womb, through the successive stages of the infancy, the childhood, and the adolescence, until they attain the maturity and the independence of the adulthood, and the phrase is a formal and a somewhat archaic expression that carries with it the weight and the dignity of the classical Perso-Arabic scholarly tradition, a term that belongs to the vocabulary of the pre-modern and the early modern intellectual discourse on the family, the education, and the moral formation of the young. The phrase combines the noun علم, meaning knowledge, science, learning, or a systematic body of the organized knowledge, with the noun پرورش, meaning rearing, upbringing, nurturing, fostering, or the act of the providing the care, the sustenance, and the guidance that are necessary for the growth and the development of the young, and the noun بچگان, which is the Persian plural of the word بچہ, meaning child, so that the full phrase literally means the knowledge of the rearing of the children, the science of the upbringing of the young, or the systematic study of the care and the education of the rising generation, and the term is a testament to the profound and the enduring importance that the human societies have always attached to the task of the raising of the children, the task that is at once the most universal and the most consequential of all the human activities, and that is the foundation of the continuity, the health, and the flourishing of every community and every civilization.