CHAPTER 43——

Schoolmasters’ troubles. Melanchthon 262 Want of uniformity 263 Proposal of common scheme 264 Able and ordinary teachers 265 Gains from uniformity 266 Changing schools. The common Grammar 267 Too many school books 268 Choice of books. Chrestomathies 269 The same. No poetic fury 270 Profit from uniformity 271 Mulcaster will write himself 272 Printed rules of hours, punishments, &c. 273 Parents and punishments 274 Monitors. The rod needed 275 The rod 276 Socrates. Plato. Xenophon 277 Coat story in Cyropædeia 278 Tarif of stripes 279 Great offences. Master’s age 280 Master’s calling 281