Chapter 43

Schoolmasters’ troubles. Melanchthon 262
Want of uniformity 263
Proposal of common scheme 264
Able and ordinary teachers 265
Gains from uniformity 266
Changing schools. The common Grammar 267
Too many school books 268
Choice of books. Chrestomathies 269
The same. No poetic fury 270
Profit from uniformity 271
Mulcaster will write himself 272
Printed rules of hours, punishments, &c. 273
Parents and punishments 274
Monitors. The rod needed 275
The rod 276
Socrates. Plato. Xenophon 277
Coat story in Cyropædeia 278
Tarif of stripes 279
Great offences. Master’s age 280
Master’s calling 281

CHAPTER 44——

Confer with parents 281
Conference with neighbours 282
Teachers and neighbours 283
Teachers and parents. Xenophon 284
Conference of teachers 285
The same. Certainty in direction 286
Certainty at school and at home 287
Certainty at home and at Church 288
Advantage from certainty. Constancy 289
Discretion in change 290
Summing up 291