3. The failure to use fundamental principles in discipline gives rise to difficulties in school-management.
4. Like begets like. The same spirit that the teacher manifests in the school-room is the spirit that will take root and grow in the lives of his pupils.
5. The principle of suggestion drops a stimulus into the child’s mind which starts an action.
6. Suggestion for character building comes from the character of the teacher—his every-day life.
7. All of the activities of the teacher are suggestive of good or bad to the pupil.
8. Negative suggestions often incite the very actions they are supposed to prevent.
9. Codes of rules against numerous offenses, usually suggest those offenses to pupils. They are reminded to do that which they would never have thought of, had it not been suggested.
10. Many of the activities of life depend upon the law of suggestion.
11. Suggestion is a potent agency in volition.
12. Leading suggestion is a name applied to a principle which says, “Suggest only a small part of a duty at a time, then a little more and so on until all the duty has been done.” Very often, to suggest a long series of acts to the child does not appeal to him effectively.