Civility and Courtesy

Good civility are necessary in your personal life and your professional life.

Custom and practice is part of society and everyday social life. These unwritten mores help govern our behavior and conduct in our relationships to others. It is this framework that guides our interaction; it offers a roadmap that enables one to avoid uncomfortable situations at the kitchen table and dining room table and embarrasing problems and many other unpleasant situations during your dining experience. Many people have written about this. Listed below are a few excerpts on what different people are saying about civility. I strongly encourage you to visit the links to read their full views.


Make civility a priority
By Stephen Wallis

...Parents, educators, teachers unions, legislators and students around the country have for years decried the lack of civility in our schools -- urban, suburban and rural alike. Many will argue that it continues to be the pivotal reason for this country's lackluster educational performance.

Such behavior might well occur -- and does throughout the country -- in any school on any given day. This is among the reasons why it is incumbent upon every school everywhere to emphasize the importance of an appropriate teaching-learning environment that emphasizes compassion, the value of hard work, respect, responsibility, civility and character...

Civility vs Servility
Famour Quotes

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
John F Kennedy

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power.
Noam Chomsky

Every dispute is one between angles of vision... therefore civility in negotiation is of utmost importance.
Mahatma Gandhi

The best antidote to the shortcomings of participation is still more (equal) participation.
P Bachrach & Botwinick

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela

Conflict in and of itself is not a negative experience... It is how we choose to respond to conflict that determines whether its effect will be positive or negative...
The Tao of Negotiation

Cape Coral celebrates civility month
Cape Coral Ministerial Interfaith Fellowship proposed the idea of civility month, which calls for harmony and courtesy at city council meetings and within the community. Monday night, the Cape Coral City Council adopted a resolution in favor of civility month and will say a pledge of public conduct at all meetings through May 15th. The fellowship came up with the idea after witnessing outbursts by council members during January meetings.

"It's a great benefit for everyone in the society to have greater civility and I think it is a worthwhile endeavor," said Mayor Kempe.

Civility month lasts until May 15th. It applies to not only the Cape Coral City Council, but everyone in the city.


Thanks, Mom
By Leslie Gray Streeter

...We always figured that rich people felt entitled to the civility of a vacation. We weren't rich, but my mother has always been all about civility. We took a few fancy trips, like a winter trip to Madrid when we lived overseas, and a winter week in the Bahamas. But as long as we were in a hotel or motel where we didn't have to do chores and where no one was going to ask anybody to work, baby-sit or sing in the choir, we were happy...

When she asked us to pause from our crankiness and pray for travel mercies, we usually realized that it didn't matter how long it took us to get to the beach or the World's Fair or wherever we were going. The important thing was that we got there safely, and together, and that we remembered to be grateful for each other and the chance to travel.



Civility Book Resources

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