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Manuals
Conduct of Christian Schools:
SECOND PART - CHAPTER 4
MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING ORDER IN SCHOOLS
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CHAPTER 4
Rewards
From time to time, the teachers will give rewards to those of their students who are the most exact in fulfilling their duties. This is done in order to inspire them to fulfill their duties with pleasure and to stimulate other students by the hope of reward to fulfill their duties.
There are three kinds of rewards which will be given in the schools: (1) rewards for piety; (2) rewards for ability; and (3) rewards for assiduity.
The rewards for piety will always be more beautiful than the other rewards. The rewards for assiduity will be better than those for ability.
The things which may be given as rewards will be of three different degrees: (1) books; (2) pictures on vellum and plaster statuettes (such as crucifixes and images of the Blessed Virgin); and (3) pictures on paper, engraved texts, and even rosaries.
Engraved texts will most commonly be given to the students as rewards.
The pictures and texts will always be religious. Pictures of Our Lord on the Cross, of the Mysteries of our Religion, of the Holy Child Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin, and of Saint Joseph will most ordinarily be used.
Rosaries, books, and other valuable objects of piety will be used only for extraordinary rewards. They will be given only by the Director after the Director has examined those whom the teacher considers worthy of receiving them.
The books which may be given as rewards will always be religious books, such as The Imitation of Christ, spiritual dialogues, books explaining the truths of religion, and other books containing salutary maxims.
Hymn books, prayer books, Diocesan Catechisms, and other books that are used in the Christian Schools may be given only to poor children. These will not be given to those who are able to buy them.
Rewards for ability will be given only once every month after the Director has examined the students. There will be but one such reward for the most capable in each lesson. A reward may also be given every month to the student of an entire class who has excelled in everything, that is, to the one who has shown the most piety and decorum in church and during prayers and also the greatest ability and assiduity.
Ten or twelve holy pictures according to the discretion of the Director will be given every month to the teachers of each class, to be distributed by them to their students during the month.
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