§ DR. MACNAMARA (Camberwell, N.)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, under paragraph 8, page 9, of the Revised Instructions applicable to the Education Code of 1901, it is intended to withdraw from responsible certificated teachers in infant schools the right to administer, where necessary, 601 personal chastisement, even of the lightest and most trivial character.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Board of Education intends to lay down the principles that punishments which excite the emotion of terror in a child should not be employed; that in an infant school no punishment should be permitted which causes bodily pain; and that in schools for older children corporal punishment should be discouraged as an ordinary expedient in boys' schools, and altogether in girls' schools. The application of these principles is left to the discretion of the managers and teachers.