The Xinmin principal felt that he had succeeded only in providing the pupils with study skills that enabled them to "work st His school, he said, might be effective but it still was not a "good" school. There were some encouraging signs, however he believed. Pupils returned their in the canteen without having to be told to do so, they plates now automatically took out their books when they arrived at school, they dressed properly, and they no longer hid their books in the library. Belief as well as habit was taking control, he felt.