Courtesy
A unique practice of courtesy in OBMC schools is the handshake. Students greet their teachers by shaking their hands every morning and a sign of gratitude during dismissal. Cadet officers render a hand salute to the staff members as a sign of respect.
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Famous quotes containing the word courtesy:
“When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
—Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)