Magistrate discloses his great respect for ‘Victorian discipline’

Magistrate says he has a great respect for the Victorian form of discipline, which was now considered old fashioned – and that was in 1950 ...

CANE FOR BOYS –

NEVER FOR GIRLS’

Says Magistrate

CORPORAL punishment should be inflicted on boys but never on girls, said Mr. Basil Henriques, chairman of the Toynbee Hall Juvenile Court, London, today (4 January 1950).

This was one of the points he made at the Conference of Educational Associations on discipline in the home, in school and the community.

A child’s personality might be considered to be split into three – in leisure, at school and at home, he commented.

“It is when, for example, the child learns at school to be honest and at the youth organisation not to cheat, and yet finds that at home his parents see nothing wrong in dealing in the black market, or in defrauding the customs or in trying to evade income tax, that he simply does not know where he stands or what is right or wrong,” he added.

Mr. Henriques said that he had a great respect for the Victorian form of discipline, which was now considered old fashioned.

“It nevertheless produced citizens of such unique and wonderful character that, regardless of whether they came from the public schools or from elementary schools, they were able to bear unflinchingly the agonies of two fearful wars and courageously to triumph against odds which were heavily weighed against them, he said.”

As published in the Leicester Daily Mercury, 4 January 1950.

Picture credit: Kernled.

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