"I'm your teacher, not your mother..."

The people that we grow up around, such as our parents, are the ones that determine how we interact with others in a social setting. They are the ones that are supposed to teach us the difference between right and wrong as well as teach us good manners. Unfortunately, teachers are the ones that are usually stuck with teaching or enforcing the manners that they may or may not have been taught at home. Without manners, the teachers would never get any respect from their students. According to psychologist, John Rosemond, if a student is respectful towards his elders and the people around him then he will be respectful towards himself. If people respecting other people than this could lead o bigger and better things, people couls start using manners again, there may just be a polite revolution Stephen L. Carter writes about the fact that manners are not taught in schools anymore, but says that when they are it is a complete sight to see; the story was written in a 1996 version of the U.S. News & World Report magazine.The story talked about the decline of civility and how young people were actually being taught how to be polite. In the forties it was expected that children learn how to be polite not only from their parents but as well as in the classroom setting. In recent years the teaching curriculum is less about manners and more about sex issues and does and don’ts that go along with that. This new fact makes me think about how bad our society has gotten. Our morals and focus is completely turned around from what it used to be, it used to be that you would learn respect and discipline in grade school and now things like that are seen as things that only “good kids” take part in. Today, manners are seen as something that is forced on children rather than something that is taught to children because it is such a big part of society. We are more interested in ourselves and making sure that we are individuals with our own minds and our own way of thinking that we completely forget that there are some traditions that deserve to be a character trait of all human beings, no matter how different they may be.