PREFACE

The readers of Applied Methods will note that in the discussion of problems which confront the teacher the “case citation” plan peculiar to legal and medical writers is here followed. That is to say, instead of long enumerations of general principles relating to disobedience, impoliteness, dishonesty, etc., specific cases or incidents are cited, followed by “constructive treatment” or suggestions for treating each specific case. It is believed that this method will be more helpful and more suggestive to the ordinary teacher than is the usual method.

To make the suggestions still more helpful, because more personal, the reader is asked to transfer himself after the citation of each case from past time to present, and from the other teacher’s school to his own room; and, in the “constructive treatment” which follows, imagine the “Case” to be the reader’s individual problem, and the author to be conversing with him personally.

In the preparation and collation of the cases it has been thought more practicable and also more convenient for the teachers, to divide the subject matter of the text into two volumes rather than to combine all into one large book. There will be no break in the continuity of thought, however. The second volume, like the present, will follow the case citation plan and will continue the treatment of school disturbances which develop for the most part out of natural instincts of children.

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