The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life.
Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.
Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do. The essence of habit is an acquired predisposition to ways or modes of response, not to particular acts except as, under special conditions, these express a way of behaving. Habit means special sensitiveness or accessibility to certain classes of stimuli, predilections and aversions, rather than bare recurrence of specific acts. It means will . . .