Who is the victim ? ?

I had a special experience of learning a bold story of one of my lecturers who taught me java . Mr Durgaprasad , I joined his institute to prepare for my SCJP exam . I found him to be more friendly unlike other faculties . But i got to know about his story which was really touching . And he tells the story with great pride .
He starts up directly with the hardships which he faced during his under-graduation(B.tech) . His father was a farmer and as usual same old thing it is difficult for his father to send him the money every month . Typically most of the Indian students specially south indian students face this . And he said how he use to manage his money . Every month he use to get something around Rs 150 . He has to use them for the entire month and what he use to do is he goes to a small hotel where he can get a bowl of rice with sambar(south indian food) poured in and to save that food he use to save half of the food for the night and he eats the rest as a lunch and when he opens his box again for the night dinner every day there use to be water squeezing out from the food . And he said proudly that he still use to eat that .
After reading this these were stories which many people faced specially my previous generation people . The thing that this poor lecturer wants to convey is as he never had money to buy books he use to borrow from his friends and write the notes in advance so that he will have all the notes before the exams . And he proclaims that if at all he had money he might not have been this successful earning something around 1 lakh or 2 per month .
Yes i do have mixed feelings for his responce , as from child's perspective i have nothing to blame because even the child is a human being and he carries typical temptations . I he is lured and given luxeries he will get habituated to them and even addicted and obviously it gets difficult to getaway from them . And form the parents perspective , they earn a lot thinking that their child should not have all the problems they had in their childhood and they provide all the luxeries . But i feel they are actually forgetting the factors which made them successful what they are today .
On the whole its the perception , once the child grows old he has to understand himself and move accordingly and definately when the child is brave enough to take decisions parents are always there to support . After all Parents are the children's first well wishers .