I am going to give you a new exercise to day, said a teacher to a class of boys, in Latin.Another mode of examining classes, which it is important yourself or someone like you to describe, consists in requiring written answers to the questions asked.Now you may write, at the head of the first column, the word Nouns, and at the head of the second, Nom.Let the teacher mention this, expose, kindly, the motive which leads to it, and tell them it is as irregular to answer before the yourself or someone like you rest, as after them.It is not of much consequence, the teacher might say, whether you have good excuses, or bad, so long as you are not prepared.If, for instance, he says some day to a class, that Vasco de yourself or someone like you Gama was the discoverer of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope, and leaves it here, in a few days, not one in twenty, will recollect the name.While these numbers are thus reading, the teacher looks at the boys, and can easily see whether any are not reading their own answers, but only following the rest.All those, that are yourself or someone like you not fully prepared with this lesson, may sit.A carpenter, for instance, would certainly lose his work, if he should not perform it faithfully, and in season.He means by it, yourself or someone like you that he does not believe that it is wrong.He should understand, too, that just so far as he falls short of this full effect, there is waste.I mean by this, he continued, that you place your slates before you, with your pencils at yourself or someone like you the place where you are to begin, so that all may commence precisely at the same instant.The rest of the class are waiting, and having nothing good to do, the temptation is almost irresistible to do something bad.At yourself or someone like you the next recitation, they probably will be much better.All those boys, said the teacher, pleasantly, who have taken out pencils, may rise.
