Maxims for Teachers, by Misses Lyon & Grant

• Avoid having favorites in school
  
• Avoid such remarks concerning your scholars, as could not safely be repeated to them.
  
• Be punctual.
  
• Before completing any book, let each pupil mark every paragraph, she does not clearly understand.
  
• Be willing to dvote your whole time to your school, & be willing to make the best use of it.
  
• Convince children, that they have done wronte, before you tell them you think they have.
  
• Convince the scholars by your conduct, that you are their friend.
  
• Cultivate in children a love for truth & honesty.
  
• Deficiency of interest in a class may generally be traced to deficiency of interest in the teacher.
  
• Deserve the confidence of your scholars.
  
• Do not forbid play as a punishment, but rather forbid study.
  
• Do not frequently mention particular faults.
  
• Encourage the diffident & humble the forward.
  
• Endeavor to prepare each lesson, so that you can make it plain & interesting to each individual.
  
• Instead of giving prizes, allow children to study extra lessons as a reward.
  
• Interest begets interest.
  
• Labor to prepare minds for usefulness & happiness.
  
• Lead children to realize, that an unpleasant countenance, produces unpleasant feelings in themselves, in others also.
  
• Lead children to feel, that they can do good, while they are young.
  
• Lead every child to feel, that he deserves no more attention than his companions.
  
• Let the first lessons be thoroughly understood by every member of the class, & the review thoroughly recited.
  
• Make every scholar a good reader unless he has some natural impediment.
  
• Never allow scholars to hold their books idly.
  
• Never allow yourself to speak in an angry or fretful manner.
  
• Never appeal to the principle of shame, unless as a last resort.
  
• Never compare one child with another.
  
• Never deprive children of play as a punishment.
  
• Study every lesson before you give it to be