BULLYING

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1934, Page 9

BULLYING

ti, HEADMASTER'S VIEWS

"I don't think it's a bad thing for -i<a small boy to learn to do harmless jjobs T< f0* °the? s >" said Mr. Hugh Lyon, keaaV master of Bugby, speaking at the Binn,.anglia,m t Botary qiub, "but - the comf9 binabon. of fagging and bullying is ,„ practically unknown," says the London "Morning Post." .j. MJvLyon said that there were several . 5 myths about public schools. Gno was ..j that, they were public, whilo everyone , y knew; they were not. -Public schools ije.were so.named because only those with money ebuld send their sons into them. ~,-" He admitted the fees at Rugby were , 3 ,tngh—too high—but "what justification,.was .there for the existence of .;,.schdols .which were bound to cater for ;„ a privileged: class?" '..,. They have had a part to play by col--.leeting people who were inclined to be , little snobs. "We do our best to knock aa the -silly, .notion out of them; if we can do that it is not a mistake for r.v.theserpeople .to como to the public -; .:.schoo]s and try to learn that essential "_,i-lesson.?? ■. ,

.v; The modern pnblie school was not a i? ...nnk of iniquity. The temptations to iZe 'vhich ■ a young, boy was exposed were ■ ± ~ fewer than they ever were. The eanity 3 ; and. frankness with which modern eSu-f,-,atipnists approacned delicate subjects ~t vas haying-its reward in the right ~.y attitude, in which young men were apfacts. Bullying today was very rare, but 4n tittle boys were often telitile~beasts," j, r find had to be trained. Sbme of them Tj in. fact, asked to be bullied, and very ■ a> often a little bullying did not do them ~,.mucli harm, but would perhaps teach -^ them a good lesson.

"'. Fatal accidents to the number o£ 7300 --'•'occnr annually in British homes., some of -'the contributing causes being open kit-, ■*c»:hen fires, high windows and cupboards .■•■•• Bt&irs -without handrails, and steep, dark eeHar 'steps.