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“Politeness is so important,” Vanessa said, holding us up to her face. “Especially for young people. That’s what I care about more than anything else in the world. Good manners.” She narrowed her eyes at us. “That day in front of the grocery,” she scolded, “you didn’t apologize for crashing into me. So I had no choice. I had to punish you.” She studied us, tsk-tisking. So that’s why Anthony wasn’t turned into a chicken, too! I realized. Before he ran away, Anthony had called out to Vanessa that he was sorry. If only Cole and I had apologized then! We wouldn’t be peeping little chicks today.”

R L Stine Vanessa Chicken Chicken Politeness Education

Book:Chicken Chicken

Source: Chicken Chicken

“Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as a product of external constraint: what the child cannot do on his own because he has no instinct for it “others have to do … for him,” and in this way “one generation educates the next.”

Politeness Education

Book:A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life

Source: A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life