HOME LIFE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 8

HOME LIFE

LACK OF DISCIPLINE

(From "Tho PostV Representative.) LONDON, 7th January.

Canon W. H. Elliott, in a sermon to the members of the Headmasters' Association on 3rd January, confessed that he was "appalled" by the lack of home-life discipline in these days. The burden of responsibility that was consequently thrown upon headmasters was very great. The preacher was speaking from the pulpit of St. Mary Abehurch, in the city. He said: "I. havo been increasingly worried of late at the looseness of habits that decent young people are allowed to get into—the hours they keep, the habits they form, and the way they claim the freedom of looking after themselves at tho earliest possible ago in the, early teens. "I may be old-fashioned, but all this slackening of discipline in homo life appals me. The fact that these youngsters are allowed to' do almost what they like when they like, to come in when thoy like, and to eat What they like, the fact that all Victorian restraint has been thrown on one side, means that a tremendous burden is being put upon you headmasters. There are good old-fashioned homes where discipline is preserved, but many good homos where discipline is not preserved. "I,do not think old-fashioned methods of teaching discipline in schools will remain for long. You cannot maintain discipline in the old-fashioned way. But discipline must be maintained."