“He had high standards and tried to insist on the principle, expressed in his 1863 prospectus, that boys were to be encouraged to take pleasure in their work by masters who also enjoyed what they were doing. Alas, what was natural to a gentle but commanding person like Wilson, a transparently sincere man who loved boys and even preferred the naughty ones, was beyond the reach of the common herd of colonial schoolmasters. They could not measure up and must have found it impossible to maintain order in a school at which the sanctions of corporal punishment, detentions and impositions were frowned upon and where their example, not just their rhetoric, was regarded as essential.”
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