2. If true discipline could obtain, most school-room problems would cease to exist and there would be no need of courts of justice and penal institutions.
3. The end of discipline is self-control on the part of the child.
4. Discipline is necessary for the production of worthy character.
5. A clear understanding of the end to be attained in discipline will decide the nature of the methods to be employed.
6. The teacher is the agent who must embody the ideal of self-control and thereby make perfect discipline possible.
7. It is impossible to secure any results in discipline unless its ideal is first embodied in the teacher’s life.
8. The teacher’s ideal must be lived out in his own life unconsciously. There can be no successful attempt on the part of the teacher to live in accordance with an artificial ideal.
9. The teacher’s influence over the child helps or hinders the growth of good character.
10. Pupils instinctively copy the teacher’s ideal.
11. Discipline is the teacher’s greatest function.