St. Louis Schools Add Oral Etiquette Lessons

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

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St. Louis Schools Add Oral Etiquette Lessons

—The St. Louis Board of Education has decided to add to the course of study in the public schools of that city a series of oral lessons in etiquette. The Advance thinks the time may come when lessons not only on courteous and well-bred behavior, but on the common principles of morality, the laws of health, etc., will be regarded of as much importance as drilling in the art and mystery of “parsing” and “cyphering.”