Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-03-05
"BEDINGO BUSTER" ON EDUCATION.

"BEDINGO BUSTER" ON EDUCATION.
Dickens, in his Household Words" give
US an idea of the feeling and practice in Eng
land and Germany on the subject ofcoporea
punishment in schools. ''Betingo Buster
inquiries what will become Of man who
has not had his ears bored at school wher
he was Young, or whose hands were neve
bruised with ruler, or who regarded cane:
as intended for no other purpose than to bt
used as walking sticks, or objects of botani
cal curiosity. A good school is often re-
gatded as "Hall Of Sorrow" as much as i
is one of Science. The School House is
House of Trouble: and SO the Yankee lac
thought it when he replied to the clergy.
mans question if he had any idea of the
kind of happiness enjoyed in Heaven. The
boy said Eyes" "What is il?" inquired the
minister. ':They have no schools lhere,''
said the lad, The common notion in Eng
land and in many parts of the United States
is that boy cannot have his mind or his
morals improved unless he is thrashed a,
school.
"Bedingo Busters" ideas of Education
are stated as follows:
MY notion is that we ought to have a
decided uncomfortable school-room-very
hot-a good, dizzy, sleepy place, with lots
Of repetition Of the same thing, to ensure
monotony-and that the children should
learn by heart every day certain quantity
OF print out Of school books That they
should show they have learned it by re-
peatlng il before their teacher, who mus, s,
down and look big, upon stool or chair,
and have a cane or ruler on the desk be-
fore him. That while saying their lessons
they Should stand uncomforlably, and en-
dure, Spartan like, the wholesome discipline
Of fatigue, blows, bodily fear, and great men
tai psrplexily. That's the way to learn,
it's we'll known. Don't we all remember
what we learnt that way The teacher
who has onl Y to hear whether certain words
printed before him are repeated accurately
10 detect, perhaps, if he don't mind that
trouble, errors in sum-to direct a writ
ing class--ihe teacher who can read, write
add, subtract, multiply, and d-
vide with moderate correctness, and who
has the knack of fillipping upon the head,
with stern manner, for the sake of being
what is called strict dsciplinarian-,ha,'s
the jockey to manage chileren.''
euln tfieury on Inis sdoJect, from mat which
prevails in England. Teaching is a science
there that is ranked as high as any other, if
not The highes, of all. The knocking of
heads, pulling Of ears, and like wholesome
pleasures, are denied the teacher. Flogging
in any mode, is rarely resorted to. The
following is school regulation of Austria,
a people whom Heaven knows are not re-
garded as very tender or merciful in many
other respects, though they are proper
model in this one:
"The teacher must carefully avoid hasi-
" resor,ng to the rod he must neither box
a child's ears, or pull or pinch them ; or pull
its hair, or hit it on the head, or any tender
part; or use any other instrument of pun
ishment than rod or stick; and that only
for great faults. Even then this kind Of
punishment may only be resorted 10 after
having obtained the consent of,he Landruth,
and of the parents of the child, and IN their
presence.