Joseph Landon

On page 359 there is reference to `Hauberle [who]..administered during his schoolmastership of fifty-one years and seven months, 911,527 strokes of the cane and 124,000 of the rod; also 20,989 blows with the ruler; not only 10,235 boxes on the ear, but also 7,905 tugs at the same member; and a sum total of 1,115,800 blows with the knuckles on the head?' There is a good and informative passage about pupil teachers (page 163):
'They were to be apprenticed to the master for five years, commencing after thirteen years of age, the Government paying a fixed stipend for each year of apprenticeship, if the annual examination test was satisfactorily passed. A scheme of study was laid down for each year, and they were to receive daily an hour and a half's instruction from the master, for five days a week. For this instruction the master was to receive 5l. per annum for one pupil teacher, 9l. for two, 12l. for three, and 3l. more for each one in addition'… (mehr)