As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
I wasn't a smart kid in terms of numbers, but, I told them, 'I'm a thoughtful, responsible guy.'
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'