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Education 139
child beyond the level of the beast or the sav-
age. The educator to whose mind flogging
never presents itself, even as an occasional re-
source, will naturally direct his whole thought
to finding psychological methods of education.
Administering corporal punishment demor-
alises and stupefies the educator, for it in-
creases his thoughtlessness, not his patience,
his brutality, not his intelligence.
A small boy friend of mine when four years
old received his first punishment of this kind;
happily it was his only one. As his nurse re-
minded him in the evening to say his prayers
he broke out, "*Yes, to-night I really have
something to tell God," and prayed with deep
earnestness, " Dear God, tear mamma’s arms
out so that she cannot beat me any more."
Nothing would more effectively further the
development of education than for all flogging
pedagogues to meet this fate. They would
then learn to educate with the head instead
of with the hand. And as to public educa-
tors, the teachers, their position could be no
better raised than by legally forbidding a blow
to be administered in any school under penalty
of final loss of position.
That people who are in other respects in-
telligent and sensitive continue to defend
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