Tales Out Of School
By
WHIM-WHAM
("If a man has to lose temper, patience, and time, by dealing with irritating and provocative aggressiveness and misdemeanours on the part of pupils, on the new fatuous psychological lines, then I say it is a tragedy. In the boarding school sound discipline sanctifies the atmosphere. Let it be swift, stern and inexorable.’’--Mr, Frank Milner, Rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School, opposing a proposal to deprive prefects at the school of the power to use the cane. "My moral influence with them lads is a-tottering to its basis’.-Mr. Wack- — es headmaster of Dotheboys all. Se Boys who were at School with me Seemed quite incapable of Sin; Some blundered into Infamy Despite their Fear of Discipline; And Some-a loutish, unlicked lot---Quite frankly asked for What they got. S eens little Caning we endured Left»Louts as loutish as before; I’m sure no Blunderers were cured Or won by Whacks to sin no more; And though we knew the Rod might fall, Its moral Influence was small. H, Anyone can have his Views Upon the Ethics of the Cane, On how and when it’s right to use That pliant Weapon, to maintaix That Kind of Reverence for Rules That’s known as Discipline in Schools. RYt need the modern Pedagogue Who loves his Job, admit so great ls Agretontd on the Right to tlog n governing his little StateHowever much it may appear To sanctify the Atmosphere?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 183, 24 December 1942, Page 2
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240Tales Out Of School New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 183, 24 December 1942, Page 2
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