Quote: ‘Unless for some faults which rarely occur, whipping is never inflicted.’ Rice was in advance of contemporary standards of school discipline.
MANUAL OF SCHOOL GOVERNMENT (1832) considered school discipline. Considerable use made of prizes to reward good behavior, and by the standards of the time, discipline was remarkably free of harshness.
The classroom was a place of silence as much as possible. Discipline was ‘mechanical and military’ – Masters used ‘clickers’ to signal to students rather than words. Students were drilled and regimented.
Monitorial System required discipline for efficiency but Brothers seemed to have dispensed with severe corporal punishment.
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