The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-10-27
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EDITOR NEWS FL very much regret
being compelled to admit that there
are a good many people in this intelli-
gent community of Emporia who hold
to the idea that teachers should be used
for ''Thrashing Machines" 1t is
unfortunate that in this advanced 18th
century there should remain this relic
of barbarism, companion of the
ducking stool, the pillory and the
whipping-pOst, and the only one that
remains to remind us of the semi
civilized condition. The following
stray leaf is, 1 think, from an Old copy
of the Illinois School-Masteg, and
contains vast amount of truth, and
is respectfully submitted to the care
full and candid consideration of the
advocates of this degrading and demor-
aliziDg custom of the days Ofig norance
and haTbarism.
Win you be so Kind as to give the
same place in your paper? Very
respectfully, ROBERT MILLIKKN,
Supt. City Schools.
| THE FOLLY OF FLOGGIEG.
In managing the schools of a large
city without the use of corporal punish
ment, few things must he taken for
granted: That the public schools are
not reformatories that good children
deserve little of the teachers atten-
ton, and that the whole working of
the system should not be regulated in
the interest of the bad that all teach
} er have little common sense "a rash
assumption, but quite necessary; that
the State should provide for the blind,
mute, idiOtic and vicious, outside the
public schools that the parents of the
3 district, and not the teachers, are the
fathers and mothers of their own
children, aud that, as being the authors
of their own being, they have little
interest in their welfare, and are, in a
: small degree, esponsible for their con-
duct; that moral contagion is as bad as
! physical, and that instant removal Of
: the affected party is the best policy
sc. &c.
The teachers province is to inform
> the mind and mould the character by
lprecept and example; all mental offices
belong to the parents, such as wash.
70 ing, combing, logging and the like
U These latter wonid be blessed acts IL
" many cases, but they are not in oul
N grade.
~ The parent who requests a teache
% to hog his child Is too low in the seal,
: of creation 70 be ever anthropomOr
% phos. If any logging is needed in
family, BY all means fog the head of il
and there Is no danger of missing tn
90 real enfprit. Parents cannot be pleas
% ed by any mode of discipline practise
=, toward their children; if you strik
nj one part OF the body they claim tina
95 yon ought to have struck another part
SOL if the part was proper they cry OIL
90 against the instrument used; if til
90 part and instrument are all rig h
% there is something wrong with ii
~ ~ offence for which you punished; if q
IN the above are correct, fault is fOun
because the child of somebody eli
90 wasn't whipped. Moral: Touch chill
rem seldom in kindness, and never
unkindness.
The arguments used in favor of moC
crate whipping can all be used in Fl
vOr of moderate drinking. The onl
\ safe, dignified and respectable cour
( in either case is-totat abstinence.
Ii q teacher tries to make ap for Il
'es weakness, depravity, bad manageme
as, and foolish notions of all the. pareu
nv his district. he takes q heavy CO
tract upon his hands. In eOrrectil
o. vice, teachers always defeat themselv
b by attempting too much. Yoa cal
lp- be in your school-roOm a policeman
d. a judge. By refusing TO whip chill
!, rem you take from them one of {
incentives to misconduct-the desl
ga. to see how near they can approach
ed. whipping without catching it" q
re- their desire to show pluck if call
:. out to be logged. Half the misco
p0 duct of children is for the purpose
trying the teacher, TO see what TOOL
In thing he will do. Show children q
Dr. they do not disturb you and their m
afe chief dies out for want of . purpo
But II you are attacked, fight In sc
defence, and If parent comes to 1
ted you TO whip his child, be sure 20 X
Zee. him OF the premises. This advice
Mt not given in joke.
The worst use a principal of q sch
cas- be put 70 Is TO make thr.sshil
en- machine of him..
,w-l The State gives children the pr