Pedagogue’s Statistics
A grim statistical record of the achievements of an old-time American schoolmaster has been found (according to the Newcastle Chronicle) in one of the earlier magazines published in the United states, the People’s Magazine, of 1836. This is the record of John James Hauberle, who, according to the magazine, ‘taught school for 51 years.” In that period he gave the boys entrusted to his care 911,957 blows with a stick, 24,410 strokes with a rod, 29,899 “fer-rulings,” 136,715 blows with one hand, 10,325, “slaps on the chops,” 70,005 boxes on the ear, 1,115,000 raps on the head, and 12,342 “nota benes” with the Bible, Catchism, Psalm Book, and grammar. He had also made boys kneel 613 times on peas and 777 times on threecornered blocks of wood,
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Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 53, 22 June 1928, Page 6
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129Pedagogue’s Statistics Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 53, 22 June 1928, Page 6
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