2025-2026 Parent Handbook FINAL - Flipbook - Page 71
Manners & Morals
An important part of a Carden education is character building. Among the traits which the school endeavors
to instill in its students is honesty, a virtue in matters both large and small. As a guide, students become
familiar with the precepts recorded by George Washington in his copybook as the basis for daily behavior,
and you may hear your child refer to.
George Washington’s Copybook
1. The Golden Rule: Do to each one as you would have one do to you.
2. Children should obey their parents and teachers.
3. Never open drawers, cupboards or closets that are not your own.
4. M.Y.O.B. - Mind Your Own Business. (Tattling in an insidious evil that undermines a character. If a child is
directly concerned with a situation, it is his or her business to report it. A dire emergency changes the status
of tattling to reporting.)
5. Touch nothing on another’s desk.
6. Speak no ill of anyone.
7. Let your voice be pleasant at all times.
8. In the presence of others, do not sing to yourself with a humming voice, nor drum with your fingers or feet.
9. Listen when others speak.
10. When you speak to a person, look at him.
11. Look at a person who is speaking to you.
12. Do not point or stare.
13. Show not yourself glad at the misfortunes of another.
14. The young must stop at a door to give way for older folk to pass.
15. Come not near the books or writings of anyone so as to read them.
16. Look not when another is writing a letter.
