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Lettter XXI. Schools.
After applying the Inspection principle
first to Prisons, and through mad—houses bringing it down to Hospitals
will the parental feelings endure my applying it at last
to Schools? with the observation of its efficacy in preventing that
the irregular application of indure hardship even to the guilty, be
sufficient to the dispell the apprehension of its tendency to introduce
tyranny into abodes of innocence and youth?
Applied to these you will find it capable of two very
distingushable degrees of extension. It may be confined to the hours
of study; or it ma be made to feel the whole circle of time: including the hours of repose and refreshment and recreation.
To the first of these applications the most captious
timidly, I think, could hardly fancy an objection. Concerning the
hours of study, these can, I think, be but one wish: that they should
be employed in study. It is scarce necessary to Observe, that gratings,
bars, and bolts, and every circumstance from which as Inspection— houses
can derive a terrific charretes, have nothing to do
here. All play, all chattering, in the short all distraction of every kind,
is effectually banished by the central and covered situation
of the master, seconded by the partitions or screens between the scholars,
as slight as you please. The different measures and casts
of talent, by this means rendered, perhaps for the first time, distantly
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