18th January, A. D. 1906. 



LECTURE 



BY 



FRANK L. JOHNSON, 



SUPERINTEKDENT OF WOECESTEE CoUNTY TrUANT ScHOOL. 



Subject: — There is no Such a Thing as a Ijazy Boy. 



There is no such thing in this world as a lazy boy . We 

 get the best results from our work when we have an object in 

 view. A story is told of a man who put another man to work 

 to chop in the woods with the understanding that he was to do 

 just as he was told, and informed him that he must cut all the 

 wood with the back of the ax. After that he went to see how 

 the man was getting along and found him somewhat dis- 

 couraged. He went again and found that the man had gone 

 away. He said he did not care to work unless he could see 

 some results. Boys like to work if they can see results, and 

 in proportion to the results which bring good to themselves 

 the more enjoyment there is in the work. 



I had a man come to me one day with his boy who had 

 been sent to our school. Asking him about the boy, he said, 

 "He is the laziest boy I ever saw in my life. He wont 

 work. He is too lazy to work, too lazy to do anything." I 

 tried my best to get that boy interested in anything. I 

 thought that real hard work might be just the panacea for 

 that boy, so we gave him a wheelbarrow and told him to 

 wheel stones, and after he had wheeled the stones we had 

 him wheel them back again. I then had a ride with this boy 

 and I saw his face brighten up when he saw a certain wild 

 flower. He told me its name and got out and picked it. I 



