3questions+for+By+the+Waters+Of+Babylon

1) The passage said that in old days people learned and put in knowledge too fast. However, it says that it is bad. Why is it bad? Comparing with the country of Korea and Western Countries in industrial revolution, is it always bad?

2) What was Father's characteristics. He said "If you go to a journey and feel yourself you become a man but if you don't you are just my son", why did he say that? It seems that the father also had a experience in those kinds of series, like going to a journey.

3)What is the author trying to say and what is his point? How is it described in the story?