Democratic Discipline One of the main difficulties of a housemaster's life, said Mr T. W. C. Tothill, addressing the Christchurch Businessmen’s ClUb yesterday on “The Life of a Housemaster.” was to appear to treat 60 boys all alike, when in fact no two of them really were alike. Nothing was more resented by the boys than any appearance of favouritism; yet what was a hard punishment to one boy was often very lightly felt by another. Mr Tothill advocated reliance on punishment as little as possible. More could be done by encouraging the boys than by driving them. Discipline maintained by the slick was the type of discipline in which Hitler believed. but that maintained by encouragement. reasoning, and explaining their faults to them was the type which our democracies needed.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 4
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