For these minor noises it seems safe to recommend for children in any
grade the methods just outlined. Nothing is surer to provoke disrespect
for a teacher than excessive attention to small annoyances. On the other
hand the best remedy for these trifling troubles is plenty of hard work.
In nearly every instance the noisy pupil is not a vicious child, but an
active child. Let us recall how eagerly children produce interminable
noises of all sorts when left to their own devices—banging, whistling,
drumming, screeching noises. In school hours the noise-hunger takes
secondary place. The pleasure of creating a sensation is the chief cause
of the annoyance.