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Quotation from Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush
“The rod is yet the principal instrument of governing them, and a school-master remains the only despot now known in free countries.”
Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon the Amusements and Punishments Proper for Schools (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription)
Rush observes that the humane spirit that has softened civil, church, military and household punishments has not yet reached the schools.
Citation: "The rod is yet the principal instrument of governing them, and a school-master remains the only despot now known in free countries." — Benjamin Rush, Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon the Amusements and Punishments Proper for Schools (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription). (id rush-essays-on-education-in-a-republic-q5)
Portrait: Portrait of Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
