But not everyone agrees that the public needs the civics lesson.

It was merely a civics lesson, nothing more, I assure you.

In the current terrorism cases, some judges appear to believe the administration needs nothing so much as a good civics lesson.

She was more interested in the civics lesson that the campaign, now and after the election, could offer.

Part of each program is a sort of civics lesson.

In the meantime, the committee has provided a civics lesson.

The summer people coming to these small towns are not tourists looking for a civics lesson.

They are more like a civics lesson than a cause for action.

The lawyer spoke to the younger man as though he were giving him a civics lesson.

But the message of this civics lesson may have been lost among the admonitions.