CHAPTER II.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Objects to be aimed at in the general arrangements .-- Systematizing the teacher's work .-- Necessity of having only one thing to attend to at a time.
1.

Whispering and leaving seats .-- An experiment .-- Method of regulating this .-- Introduction of the new plan .-- Difficulties .-- Dialogue with pupils .-- Study-card .-- Construction and use.
2.

Mending pens .-- Unnecessary trouble from this source .-- Degree of importance to be attached to good pens .-- Plan for providing them.
3.

Answering questions .-- Evils .-- Each pupil's fair proportion of time .-- Questions about lessons .-- When the teacher should refuse to answer them .-- Rendering assistance .-- When to be refused.
4.

Hearing recitations .-- Regular arrangement of them .-- Punctuality .-- Plan and schedule .-- General exercises .-- Subjects to be attended to at them.
General arrangements of government .-- Power to be delegated to pupils .-- Gardiner Lyceum .-- Its government .-- The trial .-- Real republican government impracticable in schools .-- Delegated power .-- Experiment with the writing-books .-- Quarrel about the nail .-- Offices for pupils .-- Cautions .-- Danger of insubordination .-- New plans to be introduced gradually..