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And, after all, if larger liberties are attached to the acquisition of knowledge, and the child finds that it can no more go to the seaside without a knowledge of the multiplication and pence tables than it can be an astronomer without mathematics, it will learn the multiplication table, which is more than it always does at present, in spite of all the canings and keepings in.
As to children, who shall say what canings and birchings and terrifyings and threats of hell fire and impositions and humiliations and petty imprisonings and sendings to bed and standing in corners and the like they have suffered because their parents and guardians and teachers knew everything so much better than Socrates or Solon? It is this ignorant uppishness that does the mischief.
"If you're uncivil I'll break your bones, Mr. AMOS," says Mr. Walker, sternly. "I should like to see you try, Mr. HOOKER Walker," replies the undaunted shopman; on which the Captain, looking several tremendous canings at him, walked into the back room or "studio." "How are you, Tiny my buck?" says the Captain. "Much doing?" "Not a soul in town. I 'aven't touched the hirons all day," replied Mr.
With equal truth it may be said that, without a single exception, flogging makes a good boy bad, and a bad boy worse. How many men owe their ferocity to the canings they received when school-boys! The early floggings hardened and soured them, and blunted their sensibility.
Squeers then proceeded to give several messages of various degrees of unpleasantness to sundry of the boys, followed up by vigorous canings where he had any grudge to pay off. One by one the boys answered to their names. "Now let us see," said Squeers. "A letter for Cobbey. Stand up, Cobbey." Another boy stood up and eyed the letter very hard, while Squeers made a mental abstract of the same.
It might be said that the discipline of a school cannot be maintained unless the boys be frequently caned, that it must be either caning or expulsion. I deny these assertions. Dr Arnold was able to conduct his school with honour to himself, and with immense benefit to the rising generation, without either frequent canings or expulsions.
Even the few slow boys who were still mumbling over their Latin grammar for next day had one ear pricked up to hear what he was saying. "I'll tell you what it is," said Crawley Major, addressing them generally: "the Doctor is in a furious wax, and he will be pretty free with his canings and impositions to-morrow.
Many holidays had come and gone since that day, and Dick had grown into a lanky hobbledehoy more than ever conscious of his bad clothes. Not for a moment had Mrs. Jennett relaxed her tender care of him, but the average canings of a public school Dick fell under punishment about three times a month filled him with contempt for her powers.
Hathorn, if this cat did not upset their ink, why on earth should these boys have a grudge against her and murder her?" The schoolmaster was silent. "Now I want an answer, sir. You are punishing thirty boys in addition to the sixteen daily canings divided among them; you have cut off all their play time, and kept them at work from the time they rise to the time they go to bed.
Walter," he continued, in a lower voice, "I hope that you'll have nothing to do with this humbug?" "I will though, Henderson; if I'm to have nothing but canings and floggings, I may just as well be caned and flogged for something as for nothing." "The desk's locked," said Anthony; "we shan't be able to get hold of the imposition-book."
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