Show THE RULE KULE OP OF THE ROD the chicago times herald takes notice of adie case of a schoolboy wha was beaten by a sectarian schoolmaster and who died some days afterwards in court evidence was of course produced to fro prove that the death did dad d id not result from the beating but from a fall and the schoolmaster was exonerated but not our chicago temporary oo thinks before the bar of enlightened public opinion dom the paper comments as follows the of whipping children has been abolished in the public schools land and with the spread of intelligence to is disappearing in the home it Is a arao tice that always denotes inhumanity and cowardice and often reaches de grees of cruelty and brutality brute lity the main or women who strikes a child thereby confesses inability to govern hdm or bior herself and is conse consequently incapable of governing gov erving the child un questionably many parents administer corporal punishment as a dative but even under such circum circumstances stan c es t the he desire to benefit the child Is rare rarely ly u un n a accompanied by an angry impulse 5 while most of the blows children receive froom from their elders are entirely due to un restrained j the rule of the rod is the rule vs of might and might is the only rule known to ignorance corporal punishment gnoj 0 children Is a survival of savagery wan barbarism barbard sm and has bas no place in the lav alvey of enlightened people and going back to the particular ease case referred to no person who cannot rule a child by reason kindness kin diness and in an tell igent rest restraint Taint is competent to have charge of the education of children it hias has been so decided in the matter of public education it is equally true of private or sectarian instructors it will not be de denied tried that the habit or i children is a survival of an a age 90 in which the rule of the rod prevail d a time when noe not only tonly children child pen but ser and wives could be subjected to tm corporal punishment then it could said truly spare the rod and spoil the child for it was incumbent upon par ants and schoolteachers school teachers to prepare the youthful mind for arbit arbitrary mry laws and the tyra tyranny of aristocrats and despots it was necessary to beat everybody into dumb submission as it is today in i n asiatic count countries VIes but modern society requires other methods in education as in so many other departments of human life |