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ttf * H& § l ) & ussfesilpftWe f * olid % } provided , aft $ u the teasel -fc ** I f ft tbi ^ house , this school , this birth-place and garden of its P § f 4 j B ^ yiica } and jptellectual beauty , no jplteirrheaded peda-£ & £$£ > # Q eQld-blQodecL narrow-souled , idolatrous convention *
alist , in a maligpity of hatred of truthful sweetness , or a callosity of fc > Jly , t ? y upon it his miserable and mischievous g ^ mes of grinding see-saw ; his disgusting and odious tuggings $ *> opposing ends of Jijs established education ropes ; for if he fjpes , the vessel stands an ugly chance of being shivered to his his
satisfaction , and the ^ nave-fool will raise solemn hand in ecstacy , grin his foulest grin of bliss , triumphantly point to the figment and the ruins which he has made , and chaunt his pjrercpncocted paean , in " I tqld you the scheme would * Gt < jo !" JSfcill there is balm in ( Jilead for the literal disciple of ' ¦ spare tfeet rod apd sfppU the child , "—the propounder of rewards and punishments must not be left to despair , though we cannot to the of the
off ^ r much consolation advocates birch and the feruje , and solitary confinement . He insists that such agreeable aids are indispensable in the education of children , — as jjieqessary as the handle to the besom of birch , as the stick to th $ mop , or tl ^ e moon for moonlight ! Punishments are ^ W ^ rded $ ven in the system of education at Workso p ; but
^ vha £ are they ? the privation of a pleasure ; such a privation as ^ o ^ d be , hai | ed > yith a shout of joy by ninety-nine hundreds g £ the fepys , in ninety-hundreds pf the schools in Britain , as th § % si reward # ie masters could offer them . Here it is felt as % pujaishn ^ ent- ^ keenly felt—felt in the mind ; though it makes $ 9 impression oa the back , it does not fail to produce the r ^^ a edy , % he correction pf the fault for which the punishment is thus
ijlfjieted . { liave gfaid it is the privation of a pleasure . What is \\^ e ple ^^ i ^ re withheld ? Hear it , Q ye wise breeders fit iyWWJfc a ^ 4 servile in the sain e spil , in the s ^ me head and ^ L g ^ Irryy ^ pb ? ti | iately reverent of the stupid practices of austere $ ^ h , Qrity , admirers of the birch and lignum vita , coercars of # fi brains duptua nearts sticklers
% m y ^ W ^ g lrp ^« and ; ye tpr grinding the ? n wory , and hardening the brain into woodennes « ^ y , f asj ^ s ^ d * ' impositions . " Fje on you , teachers of 'fp ^ r ^ s ! " Tfe ^ e Vpys ^ re punished by not being peri&ntt $ d tp jqip ia the lesson which is iu course when the offence i ? qpi ^ nHted ! "A punishment , do you call that ?" th §
^ j ^ culate ^ riwy pf pedagogues ^ echoed by the flocks of B %# ft 8 wd ? papw ? i » I Ask any one of these boys what If ifelttfe s id is ? His answer is better than any njy words can gi ^ jrfggit ir h \ % ^ yies , wd listen to his honesty natural toqe Qf y qiGV- Yw wiU . ) ifro ££ leayp , Jhat it is possible to inake g | lj ^} rf 9 'H * kf > tetbei « teraing ^ with as much pleasure as they
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/75/
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