CBS News Features Charm School
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In case you missed it, MIT's Charm School went national yesterday on the CBS program Sunday Morning.Charm School is a series of IAP classes designed to teach etiquette and social skills to students, such as how to work a room, properly eat a meal, and tie a bow tie. Watch the segment.
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Eve Sullivan
Thu, 12/13/2012 9:35am
Thank you, Robin Brown, for mentioning 'all parents' in your comment. Indeed it is a basic responsibility of fathers and mothers - and any adults who care for children - to both model and teach basic civility. Greetings, goodbyes, generosity, gratitude are all learned behaviors and therefore can be taught. The task of teaching them is up to us, the grown-ups. I hope readers will look for Where the Heart Listens: a handbook for parents and their allies in a global society - in print, audio book or ebook - which tells the backstory of the Charm School mini-session 'How To Tell Somebody Something They'd Rather Not Hear' mentioned in the CBS Sunday Morning clip (above: bit.ly/yi75ZU)
Robin Brown
Mon, 03/05/2012 4:09pm
It would be a tremendous benefit to our nation (not to mention the individual students themselves) if all schools (or even better - all parents) would teach their children correct social behavior and manners. You can never start too soon. The true basis and foundation of all polite behavior and protocol is consideration for others (in contrast to today's "me first" attitude!), demonstrated with kindness and humility. These are unfortunate times, as society's attention, appreciation and careful tending of gracious behavior has devolved. An excellent education was once adorned with polished and genteel social manners and crowned with an honorable character of steadfast integrity.