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"You can't do anything," said Miss Schofield "He's

against you on one side and he sets the children against you on

the other The children are si Everything, everything has got

to coot to force it

into them--and that's how it is"

Ursula felt her heart fail inside her Whyon fifty-five reluctant

children, having all the tily, rude jealousy behind her,

ready to throw her to the mercy of the herd of children, who

would like to rend her as a weaker representative of authority

A great dread of her task possessed her She saw Mr Brunt, Miss

Harby, Miss Schofield, all the school-teachers, drudging

unwillingly at the graceless task of cothe whole set to

an automatic state of obedience and attention, and then of

coe The

first great task was to reduce sixty children to one state of

This state h the will of the teacher, and the will of the whole

school authority, imposed upon the will of the children The

point was that the headmaster and the teachers should have one

will in authority, which should bring the will of the children

into accord But the headmaster was narrow and exclusive The

will of the teachers could not agree with his, their separate

wills refused to be so subordinated So there was a state of

anarchy, leaving the final judgment to the children themselves,

which authority should exist

So there existed a set of separate wills, each straining

itself to the utmost to exert its own authority Children will