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How to behave at School (300 years ago)

December 31, 2008

Good for when you are in role as a prehistoric or not so prehistoric teacher:

The School of Manners OR Rules for Childrens Behaviour: The Fourth Edition (1701)

CHAP. VII
Of Behaviour in the School
1 Bow at coming in, Putting off thine hat; expecially if the Mafter or Ufther be prefent.
2. Loiter not, but immediately take thine own feat…
6. At no time talk or quarrel in the school; but be quiet, peaceable and silent: Much less may thou deceive thy self by trifling away thy time in play.
7.  If thy Master speak to thee, rise up and bow, making thine answer standing.
8. Bawl not aloud in making complaints: A boys tongue should never be heard in school but in answering a question, or repeating his lesson.
9.  If a stranger speak to thee in School, stand up and answer with respect and ceremony, both of words and gesture, as if though spaketh to thy Master.
11. Go not rudely home through the street, stand not talking with boys to delay thee, but go quietly home, and with all convenient haste.
12. Divulge not to any person whatsoever elsewhere, any thing that hath passed in the School, either spoken or done.