Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sidered of any efficiency, by multitudes of School Boards though any individual Director or Trustee is always inclined to think, whenever force is applied to his child, that it ought to have been at some other time, or by some other method; and that the teacher is more blameworthy in his manner of administering the punishment than the child in committing the offense. While few, if any, judicious teachers entirely discard the idea of coercion from their theory of School Management, this particular plan now under consideration strives to correct all evils, and stimulate all virtues by the same process, varied only in the degree of intensity to meet the demands of any given ca.ie. If JoJm has " played hookey," and the teacher finds it out, John kno ws what to expect. If Josoph is tardy, without a note from his parent, (more commonly written by some older pupil,) he understands full well the nature of the penalty. If James's uncontrollable love of fun gets the better of hia fears, the Master's voice gives no uncertain sound, "Come up here, James, I 've got to ferule you again, I see." If Willie's idleness has prevented his learning his spelling lesson, the same remedy is supposed to be the only effectual one, and the good teacher wonders why Willie, naturally so smart, can be so lazy; and really fears that he is growing worse and worse, in spite of all his faithful efforts to stimulate the boy to any kind of industry. If Sarah is whispering, and repeated reproof has been found of no avail, the ferule must be used; this evil must be checked, or her example will render the school unmanageable. If Miranda is detected playing tit-tat-too with her seat- mate, when they ought to have been working out their Arithmetic examples, it is a sad instance of waywardness and dec...