There is no better place to learn this virtue than in a hectic preschool environment, where everything is shared and civility and manners are both taught and learned organically.
There was wealth, eminence, and political influence on both sides; a symmetry in the families' associations with leading colleges (Wentworth's father was a benefactor of the Harvard Divinity School); and a shared culture of civility and introspection.
What unites these interpretations is a shared suspicion that the rules of civility exist to preserve our hierarchies.
When I was on the road pitching the idea that, through dialog, education, role-modeling and shared values, it is possible to restore civility to America, prominent leaders did not believe that civility could happen.
It also spoke of fears developing that "civility" — in this case, a shared sense of general propriety — was endangered even among the suburbs' young children.
By the standards of their shared history, this has been a period of relative civility between the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.
"The true motive force for this effort's incredibly quick success: a thirst for civility and a way to remember our shared love of democracy," he said.
In the Purple Tent, political adversaries and thought leaders came together to discuss civility and common ground by using the lens of our shared American values.
Also, sectarianism and civility in Northern Ireland - Dr Lisa Smyth explores how mothers from different religious communities 'get along' in the shared spaces of inner city Belfast.
Community, whether online or offline, is built brick-by-brick on a foundation of shared identity, trust, and civility/humanity.
