As they grow older and more independent in their work the same cause operates in a different way.

They can go on by themselves and to a certain extent they must do so, as o n account of the numbers teachers can give less time and less individual help to each, and the habit of self-reliance is gradually acquired, with a certain amount of drudgery, leading to results proportionate to the teacher's personal power of stimulating work.

The old race of Scottish schoolmaster in the rural schools produced--perhaps still produces--good types of such self-reliant scholars, urged on by his personal enthusiasm for knowledge.

Having no assistant, his own personality was the soul of the school, both boys and girls responding in a spirit which was worthy of it.

But the boys had the best of it; "lassies" were not deemed worthy to touch the classics, and the classics were everything to him.