On the other hand, laxity of discipline, and the disorder which will result from it, will only lead the pupils to contemn their teacher and to hate their school.
By introducing and maintaining such a discipline as I have described, great facilities will be secured for examining the classes.

For example, to take a case different from the one before described, let us suppose that a class have been performing a number of examples in Addition.

They come together to the recitation, and, under one mode of managing classes, the teacher is immediately beset by a number of the pupils with excuses.

One had no slate; another was absent when the lesson was assigned; a third performed the work, but it got rubbed out, and a fourth did not know what was to be done.

The teacher stops to hear all these, and to talk about them, fretting himself, and fretting the delinquents by his impatient remarks.