CADET INSTRUCTION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2183, 23 June 1914, Page 7

CADET INSTRUCTION

THE TYPE OF MAN REQUIRED

Touching jipon the subject of cadet instruction, General Sir lan Hamilton remarks, in his report, that withsdults a vast deal depends oh the instructor, but a good curriculum will always enablo keen men to work out their own salvation. "With cadets the curriculum counts for literally Bothlhg conv pared to the instructor. A.man with a vocation for that sort of' job, especially if he "has war-medals, an ultra-fierce aspect, and a loud and military word of command,. will quickly produce discip■ine and steady drill. Every effort should be made to securo the best possible instructors, and to give themselves a 'good . personal equipment of knowledge of drill, of warlike stories, and of tHo principles df discipline, For it ,sli6Ultl ever be bdrne in rriin'cl that a fiiiyLof knowledge alicl ii suitable, impressive- Method af tflSehing will create a good discipline where mere pUnishmont will every time signally fail. In many areas' illis discipline "hiis already iriadts gobd/rjrbgre'ss! but in >ome companies again'boys fiavo. still almost everything to learn. On one occasion , after my inspection was over, I happened to pass a column of cadets on tbeir way home in tho dusk. Tho ranks were broken arid, in ..disorder') and there was a good deal of horse-play, shouting, and noise: discipline had gone to the dogs. In front of the column marched three or four officers, apparently unconcerned with what was going on behind thorn. No*; this was bad work. _ All the Rood of tho parade and inspection had been thrown away, and a> positive unsoldierlike spirit- Was iii process of being actively engendered. On the other hand, many of tho conii panics I saw stood perfectly steady .oh parade, and marched with a smartness and precision that would be quito impossible iu the absence of real discip- , Jinc."