The golden rule of education is that the child is to do nothing for himself which his teacher can possibly do, or even pretend to do, for him.

Were he to try to do things by or for himself, he would probably start by doing them badly.

This is not to be tolerated.

Imperfection and incorrectness are moral defects; and the child must as far as possible be guarded from them as from the contamination of moral guilt.

He must therefore trust himself to his teacher, and do what he is told to do in the precise way in which he is told.