be the result. Accustomed to collect her thoughts at a certain
time, for a certain work, she will have acquired a mastery over them
which will make her self-controlled, ready in emergencies, and able to
summon her whole mental power at will for any work when it may be
necessary.

Again, that silence should be enforced in school may be desirable for
the immediate quiet resulting therefrom, but that the continual impulse
to talk should be restrained and held in check by the will, till the
subjection of impulse to will shall become a daily and hourly habit, is
a matter of no less than infinite moment.

And the wise teacher, who must always look beyond the present and
immediate result, to its future and mediate consequences, works
steadily, through the enforcement of such regulations, on the formation
of the character of the child under her influence, basing her action on
the rational foundations of the Science of Education, and mindful ever
that the so-called intellectual part of her work will not be well
performed if these be neglected.

Laws and rules are, to her, not an unfortunate necessity, inseparable
from society, but the divinely-appointed means whereby the human soul
shall attain perfect development; not a record of rights grudgingly
surrendered by the individual for temporal advantage, but the voluntary
placing under foot of capricious impulses, that by this renunciation the
individual may ascend to his own noblest freedom.

Do not the very weaknesses, habits and failures, which are considered
especially feminine, result from the general lack in a proper
appreciation of the educational value of strict and exactly enforced
rules? It is because little girls have not, in their educative process,
been forced to accept the responsibility, and to suffer the results of
their own deeds, that they are, in after life, placed in false and
ridiculous positions, when they are forced to come in contact, whether
in housekeeping or in business, with the rational regulations of
business life. They expect, and take, special privileges, and feel
themselves aggrieved if these are not accorded; they continually place
their own individual opinions or fancies alongside of the necessary laws
of trade, as if the two were to be balanced for a single moment; they
have not learned that there are times when silence is better than
speech, and they seem to think that a polite apology ought to be
accepted by the president and directors of