Punishing Recalcitrant Pupils.
A correspondent, who has noticed an item in this column stating that school teachers in Scotland dose recalcitrant pupils with castor oil, writes : " The Scotch are away behind America, as twenty years ago I attended a country school in Wisconsin where 1 the teacher, a minister's wife, punished gum-* chewers by forcing them to spit out the gum and chew ashes, while whispering and other delinquencies entailed the swallowing of liberal doses of castor oil."—"Philadelphia Press."
Mr Charles Bright, the Freethought lecturer, is a believer in modern, spiritual^ •ism.. He investigated tjh'e subject in 1869, expecting- to show- up"the whole thinjj" td I humbug, but became a convert,
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 52, 31 May 1884, Page 5
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111Punishing Recalcitrant Pupils. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 52, 31 May 1884, Page 5
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