Manners in Modern Life

The Poetry of Conduct: The virtue of Civility by Mitchell Kalpakgian. Good manners, the mark of a civilized person, distinguishes refined human conduct from crude animal behavior. In this little book the author details and explains the effects of manners in our lives, starting within the first paragraph of the book: 'Education cultivates in a person a knowledge of manners and morals. Lessons in manners form a foundation for the habits of virtue. If a child learns the difference between clean and dirty, proper and improper, respectful and disrespectful, modest and immodest, considerate and inconsiderate, and unselfish and selfish, then the realities of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, noble and ignoble, and true and false assume significance in the understanding of morals....The child will discern that real standards exist, absolute ideals rule, and high expectations prevail.' Gold embossed hardcover, 85 pages.