The self-conscious and the unconscious boys are merely victims of their surroundings.  The self-conscious fellow has no confidence in himself.  He is continuously measuring himself by others and is possibly the victim of parental teaching.  The constant injunction to act like “Little Willie” next door may have gotten on the boy’s nerves, and if the lad has a chance without undue embarrassment he will soon reach the normal stage, and be always a little more courteous and respectful and thoughtful than the fellow without this experience.  The unconscious fellow on the other hand will plug along doing all sorts of absurd things, because of his lack of knowledge of the fitness of things.  He is generally the boy who grows up without any sense of consistency, and who has had very much his own way of doing things.  He will need to be helped to adjust himself to his environment and to the way that other fellows live.  He also will develop as a good man if the Teacher is a good worker.

THE FORGETFUL BOY

The same may be said about the forgetful boy and, in fact, about all boys.  The forgetful boy has merely not been interested enough to give his attention to the things that the Teacher wants him to do.  Once a boy has his interest aroused, the Teacher will have no need of complaint of forgetfulness or of any lack of interest in the boy.

THE UNFORTUNATE BOYS

The types which have been discussed will generally work out all right and find their places in the various social strata in the community in which they live.  The unfortunate boys, however, are handicapped tremendously by their environment and surroundings, and it will often become a part of the Teacher’s work to help secure a change in these environments.  Boys of very wealthy parents and boys from homes of poverty are usually sinned against by their parents.  The parents of both are either so busy making money and spending it in the social whirl, or so pushed by the pangs of hunger and the fight for life, that the children who are brought into the world are left either very much to themselves or to underlings who have very little interest in the boy’s welfare.  It is these neglected boys that oftenest produce our great criminals.  All boys of this type somehow or other are tied together.  The neglected boy generally becomes the delinquent and the delinquent boy the criminal, so that what might be said about one might also be said about all.  This class constitutes our national deficit when we come to consider our assets in manhood, and the Teacher can do a tremendous thing here by helping to form the undeveloped wills of these unfortunate fellows.

THE DEFICIENT AND THE DEPENDENT

The deficient boy and the dependent are really out of the scope of the Teacher.  The dependent class will have to be taken care of by the charitable institutions of the State, and the deficient boy because of his lack of mental development will always be a ward of the community.