The activities and situations that are carried out to achieve the desired behaviour in children

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Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.

An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

A woman teaching an infant to read; representing grammar. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.

A procession of allegorical figures representing honest and dishonest ways of becoming rich, engraving by Philipp Galle after Heemskerck, 1563.  

Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of the chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.

The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

A schoolroom; illustrating Biblical proverbs on the necessity of the discipline of children. Engraving by H. Goltzius.

Discipline, achievement, and mental health : a teacher's guide to wholesome action / E. Lakin Phillips, Daniel N. Wiener, Norris G. Haring.

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Discipline of children

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Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

A woman teaching an infant to read; representing grammar. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.

Discipline, achievement, and mental health : a teacher's guide to wholesome action / E. Lakin Phillips, Daniel N. Wiener, Norris G. Haring.

The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.

Discipline of children

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Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

A woman teaching an infant to read; representing grammar. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.

Discipline, achievement, and mental health : a teacher's guide to wholesome action / E. Lakin Phillips, Daniel N. Wiener, Norris G. Haring.

The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.

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