He carried three or four leather straps in his hand. Having stood us back to back, he strapped us together for half an hour. When releasing us, he remarked ‘You should get along better in future.'”

Mr Francis Henry Joseph Archer, Headmaster: “At the beginning of Archer’s career there were only two teachings aid, blackboard-and-chalk and the cane.”

“‘In a modern school, the boy is no longer a passive receptacle to be filled with a certain quantity of knowledge. Not is he a rebellious wayward puppy to be flogged into submission.'”