THE LACK OF DISCIPLINE
"I know nothing more pathetic," said Lord Horder in a speech to teachers, "than to See a child suffering from the result of being allowed to exercise its own egocentric tendencies and I am not at all sure that much of the boredom alid fatigue of soul of many young . men and women to-day is due to the slackening of home discipline during childhood; Personally,' I attach tremendous signiflcance to the cultivation of good habits very early in life; the insistence upon the repetition of unpleasant actions which are useful to the body and mind until they become pleasant and automatic. And if such insistence demands some form of punishment or penalty in order to diminate or, shall I say, sublimate origmal siu, then 1 § gystffai of peaalties.^ " ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 4
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