ABSTRACT
Discipline must come through liberty. A special technique is necessary to the teacher who is to lead the child along such a path of discipline, if she is to make it possible for him to continue in this way all his life, advancing indefinitely toward perfect self-mastery. The discipline to which the child habituates himself here is, in its character, not limited to the school environment but extends to society. The liberty of the child should have as its limit the collective interest; as its form, what we universally consider good breeding. Actual training and practice are necessary to fit for this method teachers who have not been prepared for scientific observation, and training is especially necessary to those who have been accustomed to the old domineering methods of the common school. A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem a classroom very well disciplined indeed.
