The Independent - London, April 6th, 2002
"Of course `manners makyth man'. This is the motto on the coat of arms in my study and it has been the motto of Winchester College throughout its long history. Back in the Sixties when I trained as a teacher, an essay I wrote on the purposes of education was returned with big question marks against my claim that schools should teach good manners. We have suffered ever since from this Sixties elevation of spontaneity over convention. Manners aren't everything, but at their best they represent a concern for others and a self-discipline that help to distinguish agreeable societies from less agree...
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