It is toward the end of the second year that boys often begin to show
tendencies toward evil habits. This tendency does not appear because the
boys of themselves grow bad at this time; it is a matter of imitation.
In the country school the younger pupils come in contact with older boys
who lead them into evil, and the same is true in villages and cities. It
might be that could the growing boy never come into association with
evil it would not become the teacher’s necessity to use the fundamental
principles in such a way as to hold the boy’s confidence. It cannot be
denied that if he has the confidence of the boys he can control them. No
problem, however, requires greater wisdom in the handling.