It is worth consideration, that to this tendency to misrepresent in
order to secure an end or desire, teachers apply such crude and
unskilled methods of prevention, they really force children to tell more
falsehoods. It is urgent that a teacher should always study all cases of
falsehood coming up and then with common sense approach them in such a
way as to prevent, instead of intensify, the habit of lying.
(2) _Lying in order to cover up a wrong act._ Very much of what has been
said regarding the method of dealing with very young children applies
with equal force to older children, except that the older ones have more
definitely formed ideas of what is right and wrong.