Theme (Speaking of Civility, Establishing New Practices, Celebrating National Day) High School Speech Contest, soliciting speech drafts

"Stress civilization, establish new trends, and welcome the Olympics"

Every small family forms a big country. So what is home? It is composed of members one by one. Therefore, people are the most important in a country. Only when everyone possesses civilized qualities can the overall quality of the country be improved.

Not long ago, I saw a report about Singapore. Singapore is a country where English is commonly spoken. Most of the slogans in public places in this country are written in English. However, some of the civilized and polite slogans, such as "No spitting", "No smoking", "No entering the lawn", etc. are written in Chinese. Why? People replied: "Because most of the people who engage in these uncivilized behaviors are tourists from mainland China." For this reason, a middle school principal who visited Singapore said earnestly: "Uncivilized behaviors are also a national humiliation."

I don’t know if you remember that CCTV reported three years ago that chewing gum residues could be seen everywhere in Tiananmen Square after the National Day. There were actually 600,000 pieces of chewing gum residues on the 400,000 square meters of Tiananmen Square. In some places, they were less than one square meter on the ground. There were actually 9 pieces of chewing gum stains on the square. The dense stains formed a strong contrast with the sanctity and solemnity of Tiananmen Square.

The above two examples show that civilization is actually made up of details. Reflecting on what we do, we can see that civilization is still some distance away from us. Around us, among some students, there are still some uncivilized behaviors. For example, you can always see scraps of paper on our campus and on the stairs that are extremely discordant with our beautiful campus. Especially on Saturdays and Sundays, food bags and instant noodle boxes can be seen everywhere in classrooms and on campus. Some students even think: Anyway, there are students and cleaners on duty to clean, so why not throw them away; for another example, some students chase and fight in the classroom corridor, and push and push each other as they walk; some students also use swear words and insults among each other, and they climb on each other at will. Climbing branches, some students even deliberately damaged the school's public property. Many of our classmates put the study of cultural knowledge first, and often ignore the cultivation of social morality and the development of civilized habits, which essentially demonstrate a person's ideological quality. In fact, good behavioral habits are the prerequisite for ensuring our smooth learning and the basis for establishing a healthy personality. Students who do not have good behavioral habits in school may be undisciplined, unhygienic, and disrupt the learning environment of the class. On the contrary, if we develop civilized behavioral habits, the learning environment must be good and orderly. Now, we are in the most critical period of growth in life. What we do during this period will affect our own quality, and civilized behavior helps us improve our own quality. Therefore, we should first be an upright person, a modest gentleman who understands civilization and be polite, and then we can become talents. We cannot be a machine that simply masters knowledge and skills, but a person who develops harmoniously in body and mind.

We, who represent the future of our nation, have many things to learn and inherit. However, the most basic question is: How do we take over the baton of human civilization? Classmates, every time we sow an action, we will harvest a habit; if we sow a habit, we will harvest a character. Let us take civilized etiquette to heart, talk to civilization at all times, and use it to restrain our words and deeds. Never regard civilized behavior as a trivial matter. Let us start from now, start from ourselves, start from little things, develop good civilized habits, and be civilized students. Please each of us control our mouths, do not use foul language, do not spit; control our hands, do not litter, do not fight; control our feet, do not trample on the lawn. I believe that through the joint efforts of all our teachers and students, we will create a civilized and beautiful campus.