I will tell you about my experience handling children from first to fourth grade. Children are noisy, and like to chatter with their freiends. The sysllabus is not geared to their needs, and all the teachers have to aim, is to get to the target set for them. The class room is crowded especially in the cities, and so the teachers resort to the monitors, who act like Lakan in the movie, with their sticks and lathis. Our kids are given the ruler, and have to write the names of the "bad" kids on the black board. We had five rows of benches, and sixty children. Two per bench. I found that the kids needed attention and appreciation. So I made a bargain, to appoint monitors for each row, from the silent kids. They did not have to have the ruler, but had to watch who kept silence in their row. After five minutes, I asked them to appoint new monitors from their rows, from the silent ones. The silent ones took over in absolute silence. By the time, the class bell rang, all children had their chance to be monitors, and the room had pin drop silence. But the other teachers took it lightly, and went on as before !