Excerpt from Principles and Methods of Moral Training: With Special Reference to School Discipline

This book is intended as a companion to the Principles and Methods of Teaching, and, like that work, is both theoretical and practical. In the suggestions as to practice, however, it is felt that there is no need, in this case, to limit the outlook to one type of school. Schools differ widely in their curricula and in the age at which their pupils leave, and consequently a book on teaching should confine itself to one type of school or it would become unwieldy and at the same time would lose in definiteness of application. But in a treatment of the disciplinary aspect of school life this is much less the case. It is true that differences in the age of the pupils and differences in the type of school lead to wide differences in disciplinary organization. But it is much easier to see the common principles which underlie such differences than it is to trace common principles in the methods of teaching very different subjects. Consequently we have applied our theory to schools of all types, and our work is intended to cover all institutions in which the young are trained.

But such applications are intended only as illustrations of the theory. In discipline even more than in teaching "it is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing." Discipline is, therefore, treated primarily from the point of view of its effect on the child; secondarily, and by way of illustration, from the point of view of its exercise by the teacher.

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