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Aristotle, the famous philosopher from Stagina in Thrace said in his work "The Art of Rhetoric", Reason is the light that God has kindled in the soul." Indeed, it is only man of all creatures endowed with the ability to think and to act the same time choose among given alternatives because he has free will. Unfortunately, man has misused this special gift of God to him. Anywhere in the world today, it is as common as scenario and eating or sleeping to witness unfold a variety of social problems. Crimes, juvenile delinquency, drug addiction and poverty and the like tell us that man has used otherwise the gift of reason. Contemporary governments, as a response this predicament, have devised a variety of plans and structures in hope to solve the problem of the times. Sadly again, these scheme failed to provide the solutions or even if they actually did, the manifestation are too small to warrant a second look. What government have failed to look into is the fact that the social crises we have now are caused by the wrong decisions and even indecision at times, of individuals. The blunder committed as radiated to another and in turn, the communities to which these individuals belong are affected. An overlapping scenario like the world in turn create a web of chaos everywhere. As such, we have problem that plague our country and the world as a whole. Knowing therefore of how important decision-making is to the welfare of everybody, individuals must adopt a test that will be a useful test to assess whether or not they think, speak and act right. The Four-Way Test originated by the Rotary is specifically a very helpful one. Taking the Four Tests as a whole, they promote four important values which must imbibed within individual. The first value is truth. The advent of so many innovations at
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