FEAR OF SCHOOL
One of the things I learnt quickly at school
was the spreading of fear from the master .
This happened as teachers had left the army
where fear was instilled , sub conscious
and sub ordinate , the results were disaster.
To poison the growth of a plant would be similar
in terms of the mind of a bully like Himmler
who had a grand plan but let's bloody face it
it wasn't to educate small boys when they
weren't designed to sit there and take it.
M.C. Newberry
Fri 12th Jun 2015 13:45
Teachers and pupils...a situation fraught with risks to both
which have been around since my own youth - perhaps
a result of the loosening of social morality and respect
that arrived with the post-war throwing off of the shackles
of a more rigid structured society. Back in the mid-60s I
felt obliged to intervene when witnessing a group of East
End lads surrounding a young Asian man who, it quickly
became apparent, was a teacher at their nearby school.
No weapons - but the young mob's chant of threat and
intimidation was evident and the poor victim was virtually
reduced to tears by what was happening to him in that
dockland street one afternoon after school.
As for my own generation at school, I saw teachers keep discipline with a mere stare (and/or an accurately flung piece of chalk) whilst others couldn't have done
it with handcuffs and a cat o'nine tails! Hard to
define - but children are ruthless exploiters of human
weakness or inadequacy they identify in adults, teachers
or otherwise.