All that I mean is to insist upon the absolute necessity of _some_ plan, to remove this very common source of interruption and confusion, and I recommend this mode where a better is not known.
2.

The second of the sources of interruption, as I have enumerated them, is the distribution of pens and of stationery.

This business ought, if possible, to have a specific time assigned to it.

Scholars are, in general, far too particular in regard to their pens.

The teacher ought to explain to them that, in the transaction of the ordinary business of life, they can not always have exactly such a pen as they would like.
They must learn to write with various kinds of pens, and when furnished with one that the teacher himself would consider suitable to write a letter to a friend with, he must be content.