I agree with the argument Stephen L. Carter is making in this essay. I agree that children are not taught manners like they used to. I’m not sure what the true reason is for that. It could be that parents are not teaching their children manners or not enforcing them like they should be. Also, it could be that schools are not teaching manners like they used to back in the 1960’s because they don’t want to handle the complaints that may arise from the parents. Now a day’s parents think their children can do no wrong and they think the school system is wrong rather than their child. Manners are important to learn at a young age because it will be helpful as an adult. Having manners makes an individual professional and put together. Without manners a child may turn towards inappropriate language because they were never taught what is appropriate and what is not. I thought it was interesting when that the author wrote, “My point is not to tell us how to speak. My point is to argue that how we speak is simply one point on a continuum of right and wrong ways to treat one another. And how we treat one another is what civility is about” (Carter). These final sentences made me think about the argument he was trying to make. I understand now that he is saying that without some type of civil communication are world could eventually come to an end. Here is the website for the essay:
Stephen L. Carter: Just Be Nice
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