Notice every palliating circumstance, and take as favorable a view of the thing as you can, while, at the same time, you fix most firmly in your mind the determination to put a stop to it.

Then go to the individual, and lay the subject before him, for the purpose of understanding distinctly from his own lips what he intends to do.

I can, however, as usual, explain more fully what I mean by describing a particular case, substantially true.
The teacher of a school observed himself, and learned from several quarters, that a certain boy was in the habit of causing disturbance during time of prayer, at the opening and close of school, by whispering, playing, making gestures to the other boys, and throwing things about from seat to seat.

The teacher's first step was to speak of the subject generally before the whole school, not alluding, however, to any particular instance which had come under his notice.

These general remarks produced, as he expected, but little effect.
He waited for some days, and the difficulty still continued.