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{mHASE WWWWWMWWWWWMMmWAHAAHU‘A 0F DISCIPLINE,” READ BEFORE NEWTON COUN'IY TEACHERS ENSTlTUTE ‘ BY _- - _ PROF. _ _ ‘ - 7 , H R. H. B. KEENEY, LIVINGSTON SCHOOL 3:
When the menace proves forit.te
(as, because of wanton audacity
characteristic of the race in even
immature age. it possibly will),
stern execution must step forward,
and w ith firm band teach offend
ort, both actual and possible, that
violation is wrong, Mere threat
cning—turbulent talk of terrible
penalties— is too often indulged in
and depended upon ; but it exas
perates temper, and is unavailing.
Detected bluster soon renders it
se lf ridiculous, and manifests its
insufficiency. Our experience sug
gests the enactment of a law, and
lest it should be violated, we an
nex to it a penalty, which is de
signed to strengthen the motive to
keep the law. If after the 'aw’s
infringement the penalty is not
imposed, it ceases to serve the
purpose of a menace. No longer
is its aspect formidable. Violations
become more frequent; and perpe¬
trators of the forbidden malfeas¬
ance, emboldened by the neglect
of their punishment, grow more
defiant and numerous. Observing
this undisputed fact, unavoidable
is the rational inference that if the
teacher’s inhibitions ure disregard¬
ed, he must enforce his authority
bv putting such essential threats
as he had reluctantly to make into
vigorous execution. His regula¬
tions are ignored ; his legislation
is unavailing, unless he is invested
with executive power.
To men, adult or immature, the
near looms large, and the remote
is minified : they are so constituted
as naturally to estimate highly the
present, and entertain proportion¬
ate disregard for the future. Cog¬
nizant of this fact, nations, to en¬
force their laws, have in all time
displayed too much practical wis¬
dom to depend upon gentle and
persuasive pointing to the felicity
that will will attend doers of good,
or the miseries and wretchedness
in store for malefactor-*, beyond
the grave, but by forcible object
lessons hold out to view' temporal
results consequent upon the in¬
fraction of these laws. They do
not endanger the vital interests of
the body politic by a temporizing
policy that puts undue confidence
in the efficacy of threatening their
troublesome citizens with those
penalties that affect only the dis¬
embodied spirit., but invariably
point to the penalties that have a
direct hearing upon the body. Nor
i* this method totally impursued
by the Supreme Ruler. Upon the
iuappreciative delinquent after due
delay God’s judgments are hurled,
when Ilis mercies have long proven
unavailing. Many Biblical warn
ings reter to the temporal exist¬
ence. Immediate judgments,
though they lack the weight of a
more adequate postponed justice,
are usually more dreuded. We
often find that warning our pu¬
pils against the vials of wrath
which God in eternity will empty
u P l 11 them if they persist in trifling
or disobedience, or against the de-
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executed heartofthesonsoLmeTil speedily
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consequences of t'", 0re
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ephemeral inducement ulu h ' *!”
the mature ’i’""”®
time's eu.tainsli lilted, id and its vis
:n ut dimly, e and ';: sangumely bee expect! future I
to be blessed by a nrtune whose
favor no merit has won. Hence,
a motive, to be effectual, must
have an immediate bearing upon
them. 1 hey are disposed to seek
tn jst gratifying present enjoyment,
and entertain intense antipathy for
whatever they conceive to lie
coupled with present .nfelicitv. I
Among infelicities corporal pun¬
ishment is ranked high by the lad
between eight and fifteen years of
age, and be will put himself to no
little trouble to avoid it. My own
experience warrants me in declar¬
ing that in numerous instances it,
though because of its unpleasant
ness not a preferred, is the most,
efficacious means that the teacher
can employ in bringing about de¬
sirable results.
That fear and restraint are re¬
quisite in the government of hu¬
man beings is a universally con¬
ceded fact. On the ground that it
supplies these desiderate, corporal
punishment has, with few excep¬
tions, oeen practised and justified
by the school from time immemo¬
rial. I cannot conceive of restraint
as proceeding from anything ex¬
ternal without affecting the bodv.
The necessary condition of all re
strain! imposed by man is the fear
with which the menace of corporal
punishment intimidates, or its ac¬
tual infliction in either the form ot
a wearisome and unhealthlul de
tention or that of flagellation.
That it is wise to endeavor to
gain the love of our pupils as an
effectual means of molding them
iuto desired shapes is indisputable;
but love and fear are not incom
patible. If they were, of us God
would not require both. Hismer
ctescall forth our love, and His
judgements inspire with fear. Love
and fear thus go hand in hand,
guiding the pupils of God along
thecourse prescribed by the infal
able Preceptor, and result in a
worthiness of development that
makes appropriate their admit¬
tance into the grand University of
Heaven. We deal with flesh and
blood, just as the dispensations of
Providence do, and the carnal
tinge affects the mass on which we
labor. Shall we pursue a method
different from that of our unerring
Criterion? * i Shall mortal man be
more just than God? Shall a man
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of cast, gallon or of detention; and
frequently, if not usually, moder
ate flagellation for male offenders
or delinquents is really the mere
consistent with the culprit's phys
ical or mental welfare. From our
schools must not be moved the
fear of punishment; for it is a
powerful incentive to even intel
lectual exertion, as well as a lash
for offences. In tho school, as in
society at large, it has proven a gi¬
gantic palladium for the protection
of the territory of the right against
those who would overrun its do
nmnous
Against the infliction of corpo¬
ral punishment is somet imes urged
the objection, “May not the teach¬
er who inflicts it meet with paren¬
tal opposition? lt is readily
granted that in some cases he may.
But what heroic deed would his¬
tory have recorded, had resistance
or even inappreciation been ul
ways shunned? The public ser
vant why has been invested with
authority for a necessary function
and lacks the courage demanded
for its use, the majority in no com¬
munity will respect or long retain
as custodian of its interests. That
the infliction ol corporal
ment in our schools prejudices the
citizens against the system, we
are sometimes told, but extensive
observation disproves the charge
us applied to a majority of commu¬
nities. The objection that pat¬
rons urge, and that we hear voiced
by the public generally, is that
the discipline isn’t severe enough.
An experienced teacher was about
to enter upon work in a new local¬
ity, when a former patron, con¬
templating removal to the same
section, was prospecting with a
view to location. On natural in
quiry’s being made concerning the
new tercher who had come tocou
duct their school, the gentleman
stated to prospective patrons that
the teacher was most efficient and
highly esteemed iu the old com
munity, and that the only thing
might be said against him was
that he was a little too strict
Several mouths later one of the
new patrons, a prominent and in
iluentinl citizen, in teiling cf the
complimentary characterization,
remarked* “We have been a
short on discipline over there, and
so there’ll be no objection to
on that score.” Many
patrons have told me that it
their rule, when their children
th.m . ie cc,d ,bailment on ,r
ntra at home. Though I have in-
7"”'^ Z2T "J’'®'* «»co„raged «•>» !<»«<*»*• additional
holder up
of necessary authority to
let the humiliated offender get
JT bie, still n, 7““ the frequency “ “°" with “ which P0B8 “
tb " d «laration is made indicates
thlt <■» «-•<*« is expected by oid-l our
best people to attend to his
fashioned duties, even though they
may he a tittle unpleasant. The
leniency of no government reoom
“ e " lls “ <• «* *«• The teach
er who whip, from a sense of duty,
or with proper motive judiciously
imposes other form of bodily pen
alty, and not to relieve adisagree
able nervous tension caused by
angry feelings, will, therefore, have
the hearty cooperation of law
abiding, respectable citizens. Pa
rental wisdom recognizes the itn
propriety of interference that would
produce anarchy in the realm ot
the school. Home experiments, I
too, result in the discovery that
the rod is potential lor the right.
Say they who desire the total
banishment ot corporal punish¬
ment from schools, “Will not.
these boys in after life remember
you with a feeling ot hatred wlien
ever they recall that you flogged
them when small? » ) If, by the ex¬
ercise of proper discretion and un¬
der the exclusive control of judic¬
ial impulse, you succeed in accom
plishing the objects for which the
introduction of corporal punisb
meut is designed, they will nurse
no unfriendliness, harbor no mal¬
ice, toward him wno bestowed
this blessing in disguise. When
sufficient cause exists and the jus
tice of the chastisement is clear, it
a mollifying effect, and will
not arouse vindictiveness, When
maturer years have clarified vision
and added their weight ef wisdom,
grateful to you, they will look
upon the drubbings you adminis¬
tered as particles in the lever that
perchance (to use Davy Crockett’s
graphic figure) will have elevated
them from the hard schoolroom
bench to the cushioned chair of re
nown in which they will sit amidst
the admiring gaze of the world.
W ho of us is at all desirous of
mauling those early preceptors
upon whom was forced by our mis
conduct the unpleasant duty of
exacting penalty for ou‘r youthful
indiscretion, or would shake a
cowardly fist at the bones of a dead
instructor who was conscientious
and courageous enough to impress
upon us in strenuous fashion the
j importance of even youth’s re
J specting authority? I remember
hearing Dr. Thomas J. Dodd, an
eminent professor of Vanderbilt
University, aliude very pleasantly
and appreciatively to the time
when he went to school and Jay
across hi# teacher’s lap. Gold
smith has described with no vin
dictive pen the associations that
clustered around Paddy Byrne, his
honest old schoolmaster, in whose
traced l,i> delinquent pupils' daily
disasters. In Tom Brown at Rugby
there is no more tottneely touch
log passage than that in which
Thomas Hughes records the ■!■>
core grist of his hero, who person
» •• »• Arnold's
pupil, when the news first came to
him that his great and magnani
......preceptor who had dealt with
his youthful escapades as duty de
mended, had passed from earth,
and his spirit was weighed down
with the sense of pcrsonai less,
Among all the school,aaetet. who
have made their impress upon the
ages, whose character or ability
commands greater respect than
those of Thomas Arnold, and who
ever thinks of his exulted dignity
as lessened in even the smallest
degree by the stern discipline he
practiced? Absurd and impious
would be the charge, if any were
foolish enough to make it, that
tho lofty inortil elevation of Jesus
Christ was lowered when on oeca
sioti he extemporized tiie whip of
small cords and in strenuous fash¬
ion emphasized the lesson vigorous
denunciation was insufficient duly
to impress. Just punishment be¬
gets respect, which is deepened as
the years go by.
Immoderate leniency in dealing
w'ith children, whether in the
school or in the home, fails to give
them due preparation for the fu¬
ture. When confronted by antag¬
onistic forces on the arena of life,
they will not, under such discip¬
line, be clad in the armor, either
offensive or defensive, necessary to
grapple in its conflicts. Firmness
and resoluteness will teach them
that they must be firm und reso¬
lute when they conn as men to
deal with men—that it is the un¬
alterable law of nature, in both
the physical und the spiritual
realm that misdeeds go not Ull*
punished—that as one soweth shall
he ’uevitubly reap.
Do not reflective consideration
and rational philosophy justify me
in coming finally to this conclus¬
ion, that if a patron put under my
charge pupils uncontrollable by
milder means, I need not, must
not hesitate" to apply the time
I honored and still highly respected
j switch? Nerved bv conviction of
duty in the premises, may I not
sternly administer a dose of what
an amiable old gentleman recently,
in the Georgia Enterprise, recotn
mended as Solomon’s pateutmedt
j cine lor bad boys? ‘Sparing the
i rod in these cases, we should cer
tainly spoil the child. Appropri¬
ately, and without desecration, t he
language of Scripture may leap
from the lips of each of us:
his children forsake my law, and
walk not. in my judgments; if they
break my statutes, and keep not
my commandments; then will I
visit their transgression with the
rod, and their iniquity with
stripes. » ? But there niu-*t be al
ways this proviso: “Nevertheless
my loving kindness will I not. ut
terly take irom them, nor suffer
my faithfulness to fail ’’
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