Others love the work they hover around the school room as long as they can, and never cease to think, and seldom to talk, of their delightful labors.He did not commend those naughty but nice who were evidently making effort he noticed who and how many they were, that he might understand how far, and upon what sort of minds, his experiment was successful, and where it failed.242 THE TEACHER.Helen's naughty but nice lesson.Some do not like the trouble of making preparations, but all are eager to see the results.Plan naughty but nice of weekly reports.Principle which ought to govern.Scholars never can be instructed by the power of any dull mechanical routine nor can they be governed by the blind, naked strength of the master such means naughty but nice must fail of the accomplishment of the purposes designed, and consequently the teacher who tries such a course must have constantly upon his mind the discouraging, disheartening burden of unsuccessful and almost useless labor.Every mind is so constituted as to take a positive pleasure in the exercise of ingenuity in adapting means to an end, and in watching their operation in accomplishing by the intervention of instruments, what we could not accomplish without in devising, (when we see an object to be effected, which is too great for our direct and immediate power) and setting at work, some instrumentality, which may be sufficient to accomplish it.The second great difficulty of the teacher's employments, is the immense multiplicity of the objects of naughty but nice his attention and care, during the time he is employed in his business.They seem to think a little, before they go into their school, what sort of beings boys and girls are, and any ordinary case of youthful delinquency or dulness does not surprise them.A lawyer may have a naughty but nice great many important cases, but he has only one at a time that is, he attends to but one at a time.An experiment.The obvious remedy was to multiply his prizes, so as to bring one within the naughty but nice reach of all.But he feels no moral responsibility for another's guilt.