Colin Gleason on Manners: The "ABCs" of Virtue
HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive · The Heights School
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Show Notes
Please, thank you, after you… Do manners matter? Are they artifice or virtue?
In this rebroadcast from 2019, lower school head Colin Gleason shares how manners can be the building blocks to a richer moral life—the habituation of virtue. He then offers practical advice for families and schools to help even young boys strengthen their "moral muscle" through manners that matter.
Chapters:1:34 Why start in the lower school
3:12 Manners: artifice or virtue?
5:34 Orienting them towards the needs of others
10:06 Manners that matter
13:31 Social manners for small children
17:57 Intergenerational social experiences
21:30 Coaching in advance
27:23 Our example
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Manners Make (More Than) the Man, review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Robert Greving
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