23. Doing a favor must not be confused with the practice of buying good behavior or work, because the effect is entirely different.
24. Pupils cannot be taught to govern themselves if they are always governed by some stronger will. Children must be allowed to form judgments of their own so that later they can make their own good decisions.
25. Often even prudent concessions are denied to pupils; the result is that they gratify themselves and as a rule fall into hurtful excesses.
26. Consistency on the part of the teacher is necessary if initiative in co-operation is to be prudently applied.
27. A teacher cannot be consistent when he is liberal in kindnesses one day and on another day makes no concessions at all.
28. Care must be exercised in using the principle of initiative in co-operation, so that all pupils are benefited as nearly alike as their merits will allow. Unless teachers are careful, they will be accused of being partial.
29. The principle of substitution assumes that a positive virtue must be cultivated in a child, when we desire to remove a vice.
30. The institutions for reforming bad boys from the large cities are conducted on the principle of substitution. The boy’s life is filled with useful work and recreation which replaces his idle habits.
31. In the school-room it is highly essential that the day be filled with useful work and play; if there is idle time, pupils will use it in mischief-making.
32. Free-for-all recesses and noon intermissions are breeding spots in the school day for mischief and evil.