[Sidenote: Drawing]
Miss Cate, who was teaching the second grade in a village school, saw
that Edward Marsh and Rolland Gray were both drawing on their tablets
during the period when they should have been preparing their arithmetic
lesson.
She said to Edward, “I see you are drawing. Have you finished your
arithmetic problems, Edward?”
“Yes, Miss Cate,” he replied.
“Drawing is a good pastime when you have your lessons prepared,” said
Miss Cate. “Here is a piece of paper and a model. Copy this for me as
accurately as you can and I shall be pleased to see it when you have
finished it.”
She then said to Rolland, “I see that you too are drawing; have you
finished your arithmetic?”
“No, Miss Cate,” he said.
“Drawing is a fine, noiseless pastime,” she said, “but just now I wish
you to do your problems in arithmetic. As soon as you have finished
them, raise your hand and I will give you a good, easy model to draw
from.” Both children went happily to work.
(3) _Teaching untruthfulness._ Many a teacher gives her pupils lessons
in untruthfulness by practicing upon them what she considers to be
harmless deceptions. It is a weak teacher who finds such aids to
discipline necessary.