Show JON J- J ON visiting the University Training School one cannot fail to be im impressed impressed pressed with the state of order and system which prevails Such is what we generally term good discipline The pupils are apparently kept under sufficient sufficient sufficient 1 restraint to impress them with a feeling of responsibility This question becomes an interesting one oile when we remember that discipline has has has' of late been undergoing a transition the harsh i and brutal methods of the past we are are glad t to say have fallen into disrepute j ja a new system has grown up tip in its place but it has gone into error by going to the other extreme It is argued by some educators whom we might call devotees of the Epicurean school that everything about the school-room school should be pleasant that the teachers teacher's face 1 I should wear a perpetual sm smile ile that 1 lessons should be made attractive that pupils should be always led never compelled compelled compelled com com- to do a thing that the teacher should always be tender and yielding j never harsh nor een aen stern How does does' this compare with the treatment r re- re f by the pupil when h he gets out outi i t into the world when he must be his own guide his own disciplinarian He willbe willbe will willbe be forced either to train again for the contest or fall a sure victim to those who are better fitted for the fight We must remember ber that nature does not deal leniently wi with th faults Every violation of natural law every immoral act re receives receives receives re- re its just punishment Men do not make and unmake these laws nor administer administer administer ad ad- minister the punishment for their violation violation viola viola- tion they are arc forever rigorous unrelenting unrelenting unrelenting lenting immutable Yet it is reasonable to believe that the ultimate result of oft t this extreme leniency will be the proverbial proverbial proverbial pro- pro happy medium Just as it is r necessary to pull a crooked tree a away way from the perpendicular in the direction I i r opposite from the habitual one Just so we invariably overcome an evil habit by swaying over into the opposite extreme extreme ex ex- after which with a few oscillations oscillations oscilla oscilla- like those of the pendulum the method assumes a position of moving equilibrium We Ve are told that the Chicago City schools are noted for their excellent discipline and ancl also for the excellence of the work they do indeed it seems that the one is necessary to the other In cities where the tendency has been to release the pupils from restraint the results do not seem to have been good To discipline is isto to apply a force to direct dired the energies in certain lines and proper restraint is distasteful only to those who are themselves themselves themselves them them- selves unmethodical And so it seems that the excellent work now being done in the Normal Training School is due in great measure to the strictness of the system and order which are main main- It is truly said that one can an annever never govern until he lie has learned to obey The greatest commanders have been subjected to the severest seerest military discipline the noblest statesmen have passed through the most rigid training in fact the process of educating is merely a process of- of habituating ting ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves and it is just such a method begun by the helpless infant which has its fruition in the minds master-minds of the earth and the philosophy of the ages |