Insincerity, disingenuousness, shiftiness, trickery, duplicity, chicanery, evasion, intrigue, _suppressio veri_, _suggestio falsi_, fraud, mendacity, treachery, hypocrisy, cant,--their name is Legion.

That externalism, whether in school or out of school, is the foster-mother of the whole brood, is almost too obvious to need demonstration.
In school the child lives in an atmosphere of unreality and make-believe.

The demand for mechanical obedience which is always pressing upon him is a demand that he shall be untrue to himself.
Sincerity of expression, which is the fountain-head of all truthfulness, is not merely slighted by his teacher, but is systematically proscribed.

He is always (under compulsion) pretending to be what he is not,--to know what he does not know, to see what he does not see, to think what he does not think, to believe what he does not believe.

And he lives, from hour to hour, under the dark shadow of severity and distrust,--severity which is too often answered by servility, and distrust which is too often answered by deceit.