March 25, 2004
Wife class

The headline makes the point on its own:

School Trains Girls to Be Good Wives

Which makes you wonder if perhaps it might make sense to have another headline about how:

School Trains Boys to Be Good Husbands

No link for that because I made it up. And I suppose the good schools already do teach this. (Get a job.)

Deep thanks to Dave Barry, where MOTW comments as follows, on a related educational theme:

When I was in college (1998), those students in the Business College were required to attend an Etiquette Dinner. It was a five course meal and several faculty attended. This was to teach students how to engage in small talk, to know which fork to use, where the napkin goes, don't talk with your mouth full, etc. It prepared them so that when the student was out at a business lunch or dinner, they would not embarrass themselves and ruin their career with a horrendous lapse of manners.

You may laugh and poke fun at this, but manners really are largely lacking in society today.

And there is plenty more about education as it used to be, in the Good Old Days when people held their forks correctly instead of only using them to poke fun. Worth a look.

Posted by Brian Micklethwait at 03:48 PM
Category: Skills