In most schools children are perfectly at liberty to learn their lessons or not, just as they please; but the principal reserves an equal liberty to whip them if they cannot repeat their tasks." "I do not whip my pupils," said Miss Wilson indignantly.

"The comparison is an outrage." "But you expel them; and, as they are devoted to you and to the place, expulsion is a dreaded punishment.

Yours is the old system of making laws and enforcing them by penalties, and the superiority of Alton College to other colleges is due, not to any difference of system, but to the comparative reasonableness of its laws and the mildness and judgment with which they are enforced." "My system is radically different from the old one.

However, I will not discuss the matter with you.

A mind occupied with the prejudices of the old coercive despotism can naturally only see in the new a modification of the old, instead of, as my system is, an entire reversal or abandonment of it." He shook his head sadly and said: "You seek to impose your ideas on others, ostracizing those who reject them.