The Goblin June-July 1922 . 5PEQ» The Strapless Era THE STRAPLESS era has arrived in our public schools. Psychologists tell us that a child is really a frail, sensitive flower, and that ccporal punishment. A child is really a frail, sensitive flower. is in the nature of a dreadful blight. Half a dozenstrokes of the strap may ruin a youngster for life orlonger. Nowadays no self-respecting teacher uses the strap.Instead he maintains discipline by the exercise of per-sonal magnetism and his knowledge of child psychology.If he has no personal magnetism, it is up to him to ac-quire some immediately

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The Goblin June-July 1922 . 5PEQ» The Strapless Era THE STRAPLESS era has arrived in our public schools. Psychologists tell us that a child is really a frail, sensitive flower, and that ccporal punishment. A child is really a frail, sensitive flower. is in the nature of a dreadful blight. Half a dozenstrokes of the strap may ruin a youngster for life orlonger. Nowadays no self-respecting teacher uses the strap.Instead he maintains discipline by the exercise of per-sonal magnetism and his knowledge of child psychology.If he has no personal magnetism, it is up to him to ac-quire some immediately. Whether he gets it from acorrespondence school or a storage battery is immaterial. Recently a lad in one of our city schools threw abrick at his teacher in the school yard. At one timethat would have meant a sound flailing for the brick-heaver. But not in the light of modern psychologicalresearch. Flailing him might have done irreparabledamage. It might have undermined his self-confidenceto such an extent that he could never have thrown abrick straight again. Instead they made the offending youngster a pitcheron the school baseball nine. In that capacity the ladbecame the idol of the school. He w