Most certainly; because benevolence, the desire of benefiting others, is one of those springs of action in every human being that need only to be touched to make them act. Give an example of this fact. Mungo Park, dying of thirst, hunger, and weariness in an African desert, found himself in the vicinity of a cannibal tribe. He gave himself up for lost, but a woman of the tribe found him, took compassion on him, brought him milk, hid him, and nourished him until he was restored and could take care of himself. Are there any other springs of action which may be touched with effect in every human being? Yes, such as the desire of knowledge, of society, of distinction, of wealth; friendship, gratitude, and many more. Indeed, it is not possible to incite a human being to any sort of good and noble conduct but you touch a responsive spring. How, then, can human beings do amiss? Because the good feelings have their opposite bad feelings, springs which also await a touch. Malevolence is opposed to benevolence. It is easy to imagine that the unstable savage woman might have been amongst the first to devour the man she cherished, had one of her tribe given an impulse to the springs of hatred within her. In view of these internal impulses, what is the duty of the educator? To make himself acquainted with the springs of action in a human being, and to touch them with such wisdom, tenderness and moderation that the child is insensibly led into the habits of the good life. Name some of these habits. Diligence, reverence, gentleness, truthfulness, promptness, neatness, courtesy; in fact, the virtues and graces which belong to persons who have been “well brought up.” Is it enough to stimulate a spring of action--say, curiosity, or the desire of knowledge, once in order to secure a habit? No; the stimulus must be repeated, and action upon it secured over and over many times before a habit is formed. What common error do people make about the formation of habits? They allow lapses; they train a child to “shut the door after him” twenty times, and allow him to leave it open the twenty-first. With what result? That the work has to be done over again, because the growth of brain tissue to the new habit (the forming of cell-connections) has been disturbed. The result would appear to be much the same as when the flesh-forming process which knits up a wound is disturbed. Then the educator should “time” himself in forming habits? How long may it take to cure a bad habit, and form the contrary good one? Perhaps a month or six weeks of careful incessant treatment may be enough. But such treatment requires an impossible amount of care and watchfulness on the part of the educator? Yes; but not more than is given to the cure of any bodily disease--measles, or scarlet fever, for example. Then the thoughts and actions of a human being may be regulated mechanically, so to speak, by setting up the right nerve currents in the brain?