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148 The Century of the Child
right personal courage to show oneself as one is.
As long as the word " blow " is used at all in
a home, no perfect honour v/ill be found in
children. So long as the home and the school
use this method of education, brutality will be
developed in the child himself at the cost of
humanity. The child uses on animals, on his
young brothers and sisters, on his comrades,
the methods applied to himself. He puts in
practice the same argument, that *’
badness
"
must be cured with blows. Only children ac-
customed to be treated mildly, learn to see
that influence can be gained without using
force. To see this is one of man’s privileges,
sacrificed by man through descending to the
methods of the brute. Only by the child see-
ing his teacher always and everywhere ab-
staining from the use of actual force, will he
come himself to despise force on all those oc-
casions which do not involve the defence of a
weaker person against physical superiority.
The foundation of the desire for war is to be
sought for less in the war games than in the
teachers’ rod.
To defend corporal discipline, children’s
own statements are brought in evidence, they
are reported as saying they knew they de-
served such discipline in order to be made
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