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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

for the best seat in the classroom. Sometimes its effects are even more undesirable. In whatever guise it appears it presents an opportunity as well as an imperative problem. The interest that was displayed in learning to play games also shows itself in an effort to learn MIDDLE CHILDHOOD 65 to do many other things. Rules begin to seem very important. "You don't do it that way," and "This is the way to do it" are phrases often heard in the Primary Department. It seems as if simply know­ing that people do such a thing in a certain way is a sufficient reason for doing it that way. Boys and girls are now usually glad to learn certain rules of conduct. This is another characteristic which the teacher can use. Strange as it may seem, the very children who like to follow rules without questioning them also like sometimes to make rules for themselves. The conduct of the younger children is partly determined by habits which they have already formed and by the particular situation in which they find themselves. Primary children, however, can

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