Some important factors in school discipline

Abstract

Introduction: As education advances the question of discipline in the common schools is becoming more and more important. Moreover, this is a subject upon which the ideas of the teacher are rapidly changing. Only a few decades ago the school masters all believed in the maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”; and, as a consequence, the rod was usual on every occasion, whether the most trivial offense, or that of fighting or immortality on the school grounds.