Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — Mannersin the Schools. [ARTICLE]

Mannersin the Schools.

j If the object of a school education be | to lit children for useful and'successful lives when they become men attd wotnen.wc can think of no pari of their " instruction upon which more stress should he l'iid than"i#pon that which ; relates ip deportment. This is the ■ opinion of Hie Tliiiatielphia Times. When there arc a dozen applicants for ; a position in a business itou'se. the best mannered hoy or youth of Abe lot is invariably sciccU-u. Well-mannered boys rarely remain long in the messeni get- service in our cities, for the reason j that business men oiler them better positions and secure -their services. , The best mannered salesmen and sales- - women sell the most- goods, and are in greatest demand. Good-mannered | met) make tlieir way in polities, in the professions, in business lite and in society to a far grater degree then the i boorish and uncouth, though the latter : may -be equally diligent and quite as i competent in all respects save that Of | deportment. These indisputed facts I show clearly that the child who is not instructed in ' manners is being deprived of — the most important part of an education.. It is true that maimers should be taught lat home. But in many homes the, parents would need teaching first before they could teach their children. To the children of such homes the school affords the only opportunity they will ever have of learning llte '-rudiments o f common polite n ess. ID the school fails in its duty in tills i respect these children must grow up las boorish as their parents. The j children of cultivated homes will, like- ! wise her all the better if required to ! practice in school the politeness they I are taught at home. Parents who havo ■ been careful to teach their children j good manners at home have frequently j found cause to complain that their elj forts in this direction were largely | neutralized because no. stress was laid ! upon this subject in the schools. There are a few old fashions that are better tlifin the new, and one of these is the fashion of teaching children to be j courteous and polite at school. It is a fashion that has lately fallen into decay and it should he revived at once. A school education that does not include this is vitally deficient and in this day i when education is within the reach of I all it is scarcely less that: criminal to ! allow boys and girls to graduate from I school as rude in deportment as a lot of I young savages.