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    pretension , display , puff or charlataneries ; while , ia fact , ihere is material sufficient to furnish stock in trade of all these articles to fifty schools on the customary puff and humbug sustem . Here too , are none of the disgusting tricks of what is nicknamed " emulation ; " no exhibitions to gratify the contemptible and heart-corrupting selfishness of the boy , and the

    demoralising and pitiable vanity of his parents , nor to excite splenetic envy to conceal itself under hypocritical praises and compliments , in " friends , " whose foolish pride has been stung by a failure in their pets or darlings ; no prizes to bribe and to lure the generous-natured boy into an arrogant notion of another ' s inferiority to himself ; or when , as is so often the case , he succeeds in the display , only because others are too sensitive , too conscious of error , while he is as nerveless as the

    spoke of a cart-wheel . Instruction in all its branches , aye , Education in the true sense of the glorious word , in feelings and in mind , is given and received with gladness and gentleness . No canings , no scourgings , no raps nor taps and slaps , are dreamt of ; it is designed that they should be men , not brute-rhuman machines ; here are no drivitfgs , taskings and " impositions , " as there are every where , and only because the master is too indolent to tax his brain to the labour

    of devising other means of excitement , or too stupid to discover them . Never is here heard the stout voice of command , t \ ^ give-the-word of the drill-sergeant , with an echo of the rattan on the knuckles or the shoulders ; no austere authority blurts forth its harsh tones in impotence of intellect , or with power

    only to counteract the will of the utterer ; no attempt at beating obstinacy out by thrashing the devil of resistance in ; a threat cannot be heard , for a threat is never given , in word or in look . Whatever is to be done for the purpose of correcting error , is ddne , and done without a threat that it shall be done .

    " Sit down , " or "be quiet , sir , " is never blown through a teacher ' s scraggy and screaching trumpet of anger and petulant impatience . None of these boys shrink into dumb sulkiness , or pitiful stillness of fear , when the step of " the Master , " who is generally called ' Old So and So ; ' is heard at the door of the room in which they are pealing forth their clarions of merriment ; his presence is no restraint ; they have nothing to conceal from him . Their natures are taught to be honest again ,

    up to the angelic standard of infancy ; however twisted they may have been by other training before they came there , to him ; yet more orderly , docile , and delicate-thoughted boys never were assembled together ; the small " hush ! " from him , or his elevated finger , instantly produces quiet and eye-glistening attention . A like affectionate respect is yielded to all the teachers , of whom there are seven ; and , strange as it is true , these

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    120 Fourteen ^ Days at School .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/73/