A SCHOOLMASTER’S RECORD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XXIII, 4 June 1898, Page 696

A SCHOOLMASTER’S RECORD.

It is well to recall, remarks Pearson’s Weekly, when schoolmasters are being terrorised by the law for inflicting corporal punishments, the doings of one Johann Jakob Haberle, a German master, who recently died. He kept a diary of the number of punishments he inflicted on his pupils. Johann records that during fiftyone years he distributed 911,517 strokes with a stick, 240,100 birch rod smites, 136,715 hand smacks, 10,986 blows with a ruler, 10,235 slaps on the face, 8,000 boxes on the ears, 115,800 on the head, and that he set some 13,000 tasks from the Bible, so that it was necessary to purchase a new copy, through wear and tear, every two years. Seven hundred and seventy-seven times hid Johann make his children kneel on dried peas, while 5,001 times he stood them in the corners with rulers over their heads. Here is food for parents to reflect upon before they summon schoolmasters for spanking their children.