The boy utterly unable, even if he were studious, to keep up in
book knowledge and percentage with the brighter boys, becomes
discouraged, dull, and moody. Let him go to the work-room for an
hour and find that he can make a box or plane a rough piece of
board as well as the brighter scholar, nay, very likely better
than his brighter neighbor, and you have given him an impulse of
self-respect that is of untold benefit to him when he goes back
to his studies. He will be a brighter and better boy for finding
out something that he can do well.--_American Magazine._
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