PEDAGOGIC TYRANNY.
A parent; writes : Would you permit me to complain through, your columns about the conduct of some of the pupil teachers in the Government schools, who are so fond of tyrannising over the children. The other week a woman went up to a certain school to enquire why her child was punished so severely as to be kept in till six o'clock, though the mother was anxiously waiting at home and wondering what had happened to the child. It appears that the child was detained because she had not paid certain so-called fees, including 8d for a copy-book. One of the little puppy pupil-teachers actually had the cheek to ask the mother if she " knew who she was talking to." And yet there seems to be no remedy against this sort of thing so long as the maintenance of an efficient system of education is regarded as a secondary consideration to the working out of a pet scheme of bureaucracy and the aggrandisement of certain teachers.
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Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 195
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168PEDAGOGIC TYRANNY. Observer, Volume 5, Issue 117, 9 December 1882, Page 195
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