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Education i43
transfonning the will itself. It requires con-
stant vigilance, daily self-discipline, to create
an ever higher capacity for the discovery of
intelligent methods. The fault that is re-
pressed is certain to appear on every occasion
when the child dares to show it. The educator
who finds in corporal punishment a short way
to get rid of trouble, leads the child a long
way round, if we have the only real develop-
ment in view, namely that which gradually
strengthens the child’s capacity for self-con-
trol.
I have never heard a child over three years
old threatened with corporal punishment with-
out noticing that this wonderfully moral
method had an equally bad influence on parents
and children. The same can be said of milder
kinds of folly, coaxing children by external
rewards. I have seen some children coaxed
to take baths and others compelled by
threats. But in neither case was their cour-
age, or self-control, or strength of will in-
creased. Only when one is able to make the
bath itself attractive is that energy of will de-
veloped that gains a victory over the feeling
of fear or discomfort and produces a real ethi-
cal impression, viz., that virtue is its own re-
ward. Wherever a child is deterred from a
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