Politeness

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1908

THE teacher will find frequent opportunity to give instruction on the duty of being polite to strangers, to teachers, and to companions. Schoolchildren frequently insult, or in various ways act impudently toward, strangers who may happen to pass the schoolhouse during play-hours. The teacher should try to check any such conduct at once, and take the opportunity to give a lecture on politeness. Pupils fail sometimes to speak in a respectful manner to the teacher or to each other. The teacher should call attention to these points, and remind the pupil of his want of politeness. The teacher should always speak and act politely toward pupils wherever he may meet them, thus teaching by example.—Selected.