So in every thing.

He has _his way_ in every minute particular--a way from which he can not deviate, and to which he wishes every one else to conform.
This set, formal mannerism is entirely inconsistent with that commanding intellectual influence which the teacher should exert in the administration of his school.

He should work with what an artist calls boldness and freedom of touch.

Activity and enterprise of mind should characterize all his measures if he wishes to make bold, original, and efficient men.
(7.) Assume no false appearances in your school either as to knowledge or character.

Perhaps it may justly be said to be the common practice of teachers in this country to affect a dignity of deportment in the presence of their pupils which in other cases is laid aside, and to pretend to superiority in knowledge and an infallibility of judgment which no sensible man would claim before other sensible men, but which an absurd fashion seems to require of the teacher.