The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- He criticizes modern society for lacking good manners, making them hard to learn.
- In plain terms
- Kids struggle to learn manners because no one around them has any.
- What can you take from it?
- Learning manners requires seeing them modeled by others.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who is responsible for teaching manners?
- Are manners outdated?
Another view
It generalizes the state of modern manners.
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