' " I confess that I have been amazed and overwhelmed, to see a
teacher spend an hour at the blackboard^ explaining arithmetical
questions, and another hour on the readmg or grammar lessons;
and, in the meantime, as though it were only some interlude, seize
a boy by the collar, drag him to the floor, castigate him, and I'emand
him to his seat, — ^the whole process not occupying two minutes.
Such laborious processes for the intellect, such summary dealings
with the heart." — Horace Mann, The Life and Worka of Horace
Mann, vol. II, pp. 359-360.
• " The view which sees in the rod the panacea for all the teacher's
embarrassments is reprehensible, but equally so is the false senti-
mentality which assumes that the dignity of humanity is affected



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in exact proportion to their effectiveness in rare cases.
The careless use of strong remedies has done infinite harm ;
and to whip for every moral fault is exactly on the plane of
medicine when it bled the patient for every disease. To
administer any medicine, physical or moral, as the one
cure for all possible diseases, is to do positive harm to
the vast majority of cases. But leaving aside the difficult
question of the measure of authority in using strong
remedies which may safely be accorded to this or that
person, certainly any medicine or method of treatment
may be best for some special case, and the problem of
prescription is wholly individual.
