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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: DISCIPLINE THE power of maintaining discipline is the unum necessarium for a teacher; if he has not got it and cannot acquire it, he had better sweep a crossing. It insults the soul, it is destructive of all self-respect and dignity to be incessantly at the mercy of boys. They are merciless, and the pathos of the situation never touches them at all. A friend told me the other day that at a certain public school, a division of which he was a member was often taken by a worthy man and a good scholar who was utterly incapable of preserving even a semblance of order. The conversation was general, books were flying across the room, the whole division used to rise to their feetevery time the clock struck and make for the door with an air of blithe unconsciousness; he had seen the master leave his seat too and hurry to the door to put his back against it. Some of the boys?in no priggish spirit, he said, but with the feeling that the spectacle was an unworthy one?resolved among themselves to try and stop this; they waited outside the room and implored everyone to behave themselves; but it was impossible to resist the impulse, and five minutes after the lesson had begun the boy who had been most urgent in his entreaties was busily employed in constructing a long rope of quill pens, which he pushed, as a sweep pushes his jointed brush, across the room to his friends opposite. A boy, under similar circumstances, was sent to his tutor by the master of his school division, with a complaint of serious insubordination. Little by little the story came out, and it appeared that he had put a dormouse down the master'sORDER 25 back, between his neck and his collar, as he sat correcting an exercise. How was I to know he drew the line at a dormouse ? said the boy tearfully, giving a drea...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459050082
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459050088
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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