ABSTRACT
Discipline precedes all effective teaching in class, and, rightly considered, is something a great deal more than the ability to keep order or to drill pupils into submission. It has been termed “a force for mental training.” All concerned in educational work are well aware that some teachers are hopeless as disciplinarians, and that others seem never to have any trouble at all. The life of a class teacher who is unable to maintain effective order and behaviour in his work is one long round of misery, and his days are scarcely to be endured. The best discipline is that which has not to be asserted, but seems rather to be the normal atmosphere which accompanies the successful teacher into any class where he may happen to go. Where the teacher must be continually clamouring and shouting for silence, we may be quite sure that there is something lacking in his methods.
