{"id":1478,"date":"2010-08-19T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:44:36","slug":"missionary-john-paton-on-classroom-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Missionary John Paton on Classroom Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In honor of our new semester beginning next week, I thought I would post a story from the autobiography of John G. Paton<\/a>, which was passed on to me by Patrick Brown. This famous, godly missionary knew how to manage a classroom.<\/p>\n

“The following week, a young man and a young woman began to attend the Night School, who showed from the first moment that they were bent on mischief.\u00a0 By talking aloud, joking, telling stories, and laughing, they stopped the work of the School.\u00a0 On my repeated appeals for quiet and order, they became the more boisterous, and gave great merriment to a few of the scholars present.\u00a0 I finally urged the young man, a tall, powerful fellow, to be quiet or at once to leave, declaring that at all hazards I must and would have perfect order; but he only mocked at me, and assumed a fighting attitude.\u00a0 Quietly locking the door and putting the key in my pocket, I turned to my desk, armed myself with the cane, and dared any one at his peril to interfere betwixt us.\u00a0 It was a rough struggle – he smashing at me clumsily with his fists, I with quick movements evading and dealing him blow after blow with the heavy cane for several rounds ’till at length he crouched down at his desk, exhausted and beaten, and I ordered him to turn to his book, which he did in sulky silence.\u00a0 Going to my desk, I addressed them, and asked them to inform all who wished to come to the School, That if they came for education, everything would be heartily done that it was in my power to do; but that any who wished for mischief had better stay away, as I was determined to conquer, not to be conquered, and to secure order and silence, whatever it might cost.\u00a0 Further, I assured them that that cane would not again be lifted by me, if kindness and forbearance on my part could possibly gain the day, as I wished to rule by love and not by terror.\u00a0 But this young man knew he was in the wrong, and it was that which had made him weak against me, though every way stronger far than I.\u00a0 Yet I would be his friend and helper, if he was willing to be friendly with me, the same as if this night had never been.\u00a0 At these words a dead silence fell on the School; every one buried face diligently in book; and the evening closed in uncommon quiet and order.”\u009d (46-48, in edition linked above)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heb 13:7: “Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith”\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of our new semester beginning next week, I thought I would post a story from the autobiography of John G. Paton, which was passed on to me by Patrick Brown. This famous, godly missionary knew how to manage a classroom. “The following week, a young man and a young woman began to attend …<\/p>\n

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