Words such as politeness or good manners are not easy ones to use in public debate. Redolent of a strictly delineated class system, for some they are associated with the way that behaviour was managed - not least by youth organisations - in order to draw the sting from working class young people who might question the status quo. But stripped of the middle-class tea party baggage, manners and politeness still don't look so very different to what much youth work tries to achieve. The informal education conversation is not possible without listening or without giving way for a response. Group work creates effective interaction between individuals - getting beyond narrow self-interest or primitive urges to dominate.
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