There is another boy somewhere, and I guess right here in this room. He does not wait for his mother to call him, but when it is time he springs out of bed, and is ready in time for his breakfast, and gets his work done, and starts for school with a happy face, and arrives there in time for a game with his school-mates and a pleasant word with his teacher before school begins. Which one of these boys would you rather be, John?
“The one who is not late.”
Why?
“Because it makes trouble when we come in late.”
How does it make trouble?
“We do not mind you, for you have told us not to be late.”
“Sometimes you have to stop the lesson and help us take off our things.”
“And show us the place in the book.”
And how about the class?