RAY C. BEERY
Copyrighted, Great Britain, 1916
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Preface | [v]-[vii] |
| Introductory Course | [9]-[25] |
| Part I, The Teacher | [27]-[88] |
| Part II, The School | [89]-[101] |
| Part III, Discipline: Its Province and End | [103]-[111] |
| Part IV, Fundamental Principles in Discipline | [113]-[171] |
| Index | [172], [173] |
PREFACE
From the first sting of a blackboard pointer received at the hand of a primary teacher for a slight overflow of energy, to the last serious fracture of discipline which I recall in High School, I pondered over the methods used by my teachers and talked with others, frequently, about this matter of discipline.
Very often after observing an extremely annoying day for a teacher, who seemed to think that all trouble was due to the pupils, I would feel like rising in my seat, half through sympathy and half through disgust, and shouting, “Teacher, it’s all wrong. We pupils are human. There are ways of appealing to us and getting the results you want, if only you apply the right methods.”
The solving of various problems of discipline for the purpose of helping teachers to accomplish their tremendous task, has always appealed to me very much, but it was not until my Senior year in High School that I seriously considered making the study of discipline my life-work.
It was the result of observing closely every day for four years, the different methods used by two High School instructors and, most important of all, the consistent results of those methods which convinced me that the subject of discipline could be analyzed.