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Education 141
hand of a human being that I know has struck
a child; and I cannot close my eyes after I
have heard a child in the street threatened with
corporal punishment.
Blows call forth the virtues of slaves, not
those of freemen. As early as Walther von
der Vogelweide, it was known that the hon-
ourable man respects a word more than a blow.
The exercise of physical force delivers the
weak and unprotected into the hands of the
strong. A child never believes in his heart,
though he may be brought to acknowledge
verbally, that the blows were due to love, that
they were administered because they were
necessary. The child is too keen not to know
that such a " must " does not exist, and that
love can express itself in a better way.
Lack of self-discipline, of intelligence, of
patience, of personal effort—these are the
corner-stones on which corporal punishment
rests. I do not now refer to the system of
flogging employed by miserable people year
in and year out at home, or, particularly in
schools, that of beating children outrageously,
or to the limits of brutality. I do not mean
even the less brutal blows administered by un-
disciplined teachers and parents, who avenge
themselves in excesses of passion or fatigue or
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