This plan I have myself very thoroughly tested, and no arrangement which I ever made operated for so long a time so uninterruptedly and so entirely to my satisfaction as this.

It of course will require some little time, and no little firmness, to establish the new order of things where a school has been accustomed to another course; but where this is once done, I know no one plan so simple and so easily put into execution which will do so much toward relieving the teacher of the distraction and perplexity of his pursuits.
In making the change, however, it is of fundamental importance that the pupils should themselves be interested in it.

Their co-operation, or, rather, the co-operation of the majority, which it is very easy to obtain, is absolutely essential to success.

I say this is very easily obtained.

Let us suppose that some teacher, who has been accustomed to require his pupils to ask and obtain permission every time they wish to speak to a companion, is induced by these remarks to introduce this plan.