DECEMBER 13
"All wise teachers, I believe, recognise now that the best way of dealing with naughty children is to absorb their whole attention with some interest, which will not only leave no energy to spare for naughtiness, but will of itself tend to organise their minds, to subordinate mental elements to a purpose, and so to develop character."
The Standard of Life, Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet.
"Discipline, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so, should be ever active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand. It must be always ready to check or to pull up, as occasion may require; and only when the horse is a runaway, should the action of the curb be perceptible."
Guesses at Truth, edited by Archdeacon Hare.
"If 'Pas trop gouverner' is the best rule in politics, it is equally true of discipline."
Children's Rights, Kate Douglas Wiggin.
DECEMBER 14
"Punishments, then, must in the first place be proportionate to the offence, lest, by an undiscriminating severity or an undiscriminating leniency, distinctions of moral desert be blurred or effaced.