But then, like most other persons who become possessed of a good idea, I could not be satisfied without carrying it to an extreme.
Still it is necessary, in ordinary schools, to give pupils sometimes the opportunity to whisper and leave seats.[1] Cases occur where this is unavoidable.

It can not, therefore, be forbidden altogether.

How, then, you will ask, can the teacher regulate this practice, so as to prevent the evils which will otherwise flow from it, without being continually interrupted by the request for permission?
[Footnote 1: There are some large and peculiarly-organized schools in cities and large towns to which this remark may perhaps not apply.] By a very simple method.

_Appropriate particular times at which all this business is to be done_, and _forbid it altogether_ at every other time.
It is well, on other accounts, to give the pupils of a school a little respite, at least every hour; and if this is done, an intermission of study for two minutes each time will be sufficient.

During this time _general_ permission should be given for the pupils to speak to each other, or to leave their seats, provided they do nothing at such a time to disturb the studies of others.