A SENSE OF INFERIORITY.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 37, 8 May 1931, Page 4

A SENSE OF INFERIORITY.

' 'The loud voice and strident tone nearly always mean fear. The barrister with the loudest voice has generally the weakest case. The teacher who slaps his desk and says, e l am not going to have any nonsense,' or resorts to violence, reveals to anyone with psychological insight that underneath there is a sense of inferiority and inability to keep order," writes the Rev. Leslie D. Weatherhead in the English Methodist Magazine. "The foreman who shouts at his men, the forewoman who loses her temper, both give themselves away to the psychologist as knowing in their soul of souls that they suffer from a sense of inferiority, and know themselves inefficient in their job. It is curious, really, that such methods are still so plausible, even with adults. One may comfort oneself by realising that as the knowledge of psychology becomes the possession of more people, folk will cease to be imposed upon by the dogmatic temper and the imperious manner of voice and bearing. Noise and violence are old dodges, and go back to the monkey stage of human development, they are the remains among us of those methods of trying to impress the other tribe and keep one's courage up by the raucous cry and the bared fang."