With this second book of Practical School Discipline, we wish to send to
each member of the Teachers’ Club our personal word of greeting. Applied
Methods was written for you. Primarily it was written for you only. It
is a book to help teachers, by means of teachers’ experiences. We
believe it will lighten your work, brighten your school room, and
lengthen your years of effective service by easing the friction in daily
school routine. Work can no longer be drudgery when conducted according
to principles which take the drudgery out of it.
Because we have faith in the principles herein discussed, we are
desirous to learn from each member of the “Teachers’ Club” what the
result has been in his or her individual case. Have you been
particularly successful in the management of some difficult situation?
Write and tell us about it. Have you failed to find your own specific
problem treated within these pages? Tell us that also. Perhaps we can
help you by letter.
The Teachers’ Club is a coöperative organization from which we expect
the most stimulating results—results which can be made much more
effective by personal correspondence with its members. Your experience
may help another who is still struggling with the difficulty which you
have overcome. Another teacher’s experience may help you. Our offices
are clearing houses for exchange of views and mutual aid. Coöperation we
believe to be the principle which eventually must supplant, throughout
the world, the cruder method of competition. The members of the
“Teacher’s Club,” the first and only one to be organized upon this plan,
will be quick to recognize the higher ideal and to respond thereto.
Finally, if the better understanding of the principles herein treated,
and the tonic effect of interchange of ideas with fellow teachers who
appreciate your difficulties and who desire to assist, should prove
helpful to you, then tell other teachers about your Club. Perhaps they
might profit also by the same mutual help. Meanwhile our thought for you
does not end with placing these Case Books on Discipline within your
hands.
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