Excerpt from Ohio Educational Monthly, 1868, Vol. 17: A Western School Journal In presenting to the public the system of school government embodied in this paper, I deem it proper to say that it is no vis ionary theory, but the practical result of a long experience in the school-room. Soon after I commenced teaching - more than jsixty years since - I became satisfied that corporal punishment in school was, to say the least, often productive of more evil than good, and, hence, I commenced devising plans to avoid it. The one here presented was gradually approached, step by step, and was practiced with entire success, for many years, before it was communicated to others. The plan, in whole or in part, has been adopted by many teachers, and, so far as I have learned, always with satisfactory success. That it is the best system that can be devised, I do not claim, but after the trial of different methods I know of no one equal to it. I only ask that it be tried before it be condemned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.