Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - III. Education
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
Education 135
a greater and more subtle capacity for suffer-
ing is concerned has made the same progress
as that of adult mankind. The numerous
cases of child suicide in the last decade were
often the result of fear of corporal punishment
;
or have taken place after its administration.
Both soul and body are equally affected by
this practice. Where this is not the result,
blows have even more dangerous consequences.
They tend to dull still further the feeling of
shame, to increase the brutality or cowardice
of the person punished. I once heard a child
pointed out in a school as being so unruly
that it was generally agreed he would be bene-
fited by a flogging. Then it was discovered
that his father’s flogging at home had made
him what he was. If statistics were prepared
of ruined sons, those who had been flogged
would certainly be more numerous than those
who had been pampered.
Society has gradually given up employing
retributive punishments because people have
seen that they neither awaken the feeling of
guilt, nor act as a deterrent, but on the contrary
retribution applied by equal to equal brutal-
ises the ideas of right, hardens the temper, and
stimulates the victim to exercise the same vio-
lence towards others that has been endured
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
