Occasionally ask members of the class to exchange papers and mark each other’s papers. Go over them again yourself, giving your own mark. Ask those who marked tests to compare their marks with yours. A teacher’s record book should not be regarded as her private property. Play so fair with your pupils that they will not want to look in your book without permission. Have an understanding with them that they are always privileged to ask to look at their marks. There is little doubt, then they will show no undue curiosity. COMMENTS Miss Penfield made a mistake in punishing Rhoda for curiosity which was incited by her own method of dealing with the children. ILLUSTRATION 1 (HIGH SCHOOL) [Sidenote: Enlisting Coöperation] Mr. Middleton, instructor in physics in the Rensselaer Academy, had the freest, man-to-man attitude toward his pupils of any teacher in the school. “How do you do it, Middleton?” one instructor asked. “I don’t do it. They do it.” Here is the explanation. When Mr. Middleton entered the laboratory one morning he found that the little steam engine which he had taken such pains to fix up had been taken entirely to pieces. “Well, the fellow who couldn’t see how that engine worked without pulling it to pieces was pretty dumb. I worked a good long time in getting the materials collected for it, and I expect to see it together when I enter the room tomorrow morning.” This remark was made in the presence of a number of his pupils. He made no further allusion to the subject, depending on the morale of his department to work out the desired result. He was not disappointed. ILLUSTRATION 2 (HIGH SCHOOL) [Sidenote: A Rush to Windows] When the fire engines rushed by the Shields High School, as by common consent the pupils rose in their seats and rushed to the east windows, Frederick Hersey, keeper of the study hour, gasped in amazement relieved only by the fact that he noticed that some of his pupils seemed a little hesitant to take advantage of the excitement. As soon as the interest waned he said, “You may now take your seats.” Further than this no comment was made. At the first opportunity, he asked Laura Blank how it came about that the pupils of the school rushed to the windows without permission. After fencing a short time, she said: “Last year our teachers let us watch the engines and big auto trucks go by and so we just ran to the windows.” [Sidenote: Utilize Class Officers] In order to handle the matter speedily and effectively, after being informed of the facts, the principal summoned the four class presidents, and gave them an opportunity to coöperate with him about breaking up school work out of foolish curiosity.